Category Archives: historical buildings etc.

EAVP 2016 at Haarlem’s Teylers Museum (2)

Posted on April 29, 2017 by Heinrich Mallison

In the first post of this series I gave a short introduction to the town of Haarlem (NL), because although it is not very dinosaurian or otherwise palaeontological, and thus should not get a post of its own, it does … Continue reading →

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EAVP 2016 at Haarlem’s Teylers Museum (1)

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Heinrich Mallison

After all the recent photogrammetry posts it is high time to get away from “stuff that somehow has to do with dinosaurs a little bit” and finally write again about dinosaurs themselves. Which is why I now will write about … Continue reading →

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Going to Tristan the T. rex’s dig site

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Heinrich Mallison

I guess it was kinda hard to miss that the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin is getting a real Tyrannosaurus rex. I’ll have much to say about the beast here on dinosaurpalaeo over the course of the next few years. … Continue reading →

Posted in Aves, Botany, Dinosauria, historical buildings etc., insects, landscapes, Mammal pic, Maniraptora, non-palaeo, photography, Theropoda, Travels, Tristan, Tyrannosauridae, Tyrannosaurus | 7 Comments

Holiday post: S’more Baltic Sea impressions

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

I am currently on holiday at the Baltic sea, and only back in Berlin for one evening. Internet access is terribly slow on my USB stick, thus I wasn’t able to post the last few days. Before, I attended a … Continue reading →

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Some geo-architecture in London

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

pre-scheduled; I am in Teruel for EAVP meeting. Last time, it was plants. This time, it’s fossils! OK, it’s just a tube station, but what a tube station it is 🙂

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EAVP 2012 part 2: more of Teruel

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Today, Matteo and I spent some time exploring Teruel. Yesterday, I’d not taken my camera with me when we went to have dinner with colleagues, and regretted leaving it at the apartment pretty soon. The evening light was quite beautiful. … Continue reading →

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EAVP 2012 part 1

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Yesterday, I arrived in Valencia for the 2012 EAVP conference. My Italian colleague Matteo Belvedere had organized a rental car to take us to Teruel, where the meeting will take place at Dinopolis, as well as an apartment in town. … Continue reading →

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Some bio-architecture in London

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

After our visit to the NHM (posts here, here, here, here, here and here) my colleague Sebastian and I decided to walk around London a bit, checking out a few favourite sights. By pure chance this took us past one … Continue reading →

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Holiday post: more Baltic Sea impressions

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

The Baltic Sea coast in Germany makes for a surprisingly varied landscape – if you can call anything that doesn’t get any higher than 30 or 40 m above sea level “varied”. In any case, there’s a  lot of beautiful … Continue reading →

Posted in Aves, Dinopics, Dinosauria, historical buildings etc., landscapes, Maniraptora, non-palaeo, Theropoda | 3 Comments

NHM London: the building (outside)

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

I’ve written about the NHM‘s exhibitions before, and there is a post to come on the dinosaur exhibition’s lower level. Today, I’ll rave a bit about the building. I’m always delighted by facade details on buildings built as museums. Humanities … Continue reading →

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HNM London – analysis of a minor disappointment

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Heinrich Mallison

Last post I noted that I was disappointed by the Natural History Museum in London. Now, I want to expound on this a bit, and shows you a bunch of nice photos. As I said, it is a great museum! … Continue reading →

Posted in "Prosauropoda", Allosauridae, Allosaurus, Ceratopsia, Dinosaur models, Dinosauria, historical buildings etc., NHM London, non-palaeo, Ornithischa, rants, Sauropoda, Sauropodomorpha, Theropoda | 26 Comments

Vintage dinosaurs Berlin style

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Heinrich Mallison

The peerless David Orr has a very nice post up at Love in the times of chasmosaurs on vintage dinosaur art. I read it just before I took the family to the Berlin zoo yesterday. There, they have some palaeoart, … Continue reading →

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