This Dinoquest has taken me a lot of places. Some of the Stegosaurus skeletons I’ve visited are located near each other and can be seen in one trip (Like in the many museums of Utah or the East Coast.) Others, like this one in Milan, are a journey unto themselves. This awesome trip to Italy was taken on the heels of a two-week long European run of Game Grumps Live shows, which is its own fun story for another time. Milan’s Civic Museum was worth the extra effort it took to get there, even though it has a fairly limited dinosaur collection compared to the museums of other major cities. The museum itself has a 70s vibe to it, which I love…that low lighting and slight griminess that the museum in New York used to have when I was a kid. It seems like it was constructed in two major stages, one much more recent than the other, so the enormous taxidermy collection (the museum’s specialty) is half-amazing and half-outdated and ridiculous looking. Amateurish taxidermy is an under-appreciated art form, and one of my favorite things. To me, nothing honors an animal’s majestic life quite like a misshapen head and eyes that look in different directions. Inspiring stuff.
Milan, ITALY – Civic Museum of National History
