London National History Museum

The Natural History Museum in London is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.
It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington.

The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology.
The museum is a centre of research specialising in taxonomy, identification and conservation.
Given the age of the institution, many of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value, such as specimens collected by Charles Darwin.

The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture—sometimes dubbed a cathedral of nature—both exemplified by the large Diplodocus cast that dominated the vaulted central hall before it was replaced in 2017 with the skeleton of a blue whale hanging from the ceiling.

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Maia Zoo

The Zoo in Maia, near Porto, is a small zoo, not having a lot of the big animals, like elephants, giraffes or rhinos, but the ones it has are definitely well looked after.
Even though I think the animals should no the kept in captivity, I cannot deny the experience of having my children being able to see the animals up close, so at least, I try to keep the visits to the ones I know to take good care of the animals.

Apart from the zoo, they had an exhibition of animal skeletons and a demonstration of birds of prey which was definitely worth seeing.

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