National Natural History Museum

Monday, January 9th
Today we spent the day at the Thai National Museum of Natural History in XXXXXXX about 50 km north of downtown Bangkok.
Along the way there we passed trough some of the areas that had seen the worst of the flooding.  The amin visible evidence of the flooding was the high water mark on buildings and fences and the wreckage and flotsam on the banks of the canals and in fields.  The museum itself escaped the flooding
but some of the staff were trapped there for over a month and had to supplement their food with fishing in the nearby canal. Many local people took refuge  there a well.
The  museum is part of a large science park with a computer museum and a science museum on campus. We toured the museum with the museums director of research and Cholawit a paleontologist and museum jack-of-all-trades