stuffed animals and beer.

Supposing that a museum of natural history could be something other than a collection of old fossils and sediment stratification charts…
that it could be cool…

So why not go on a Friday night?
The First Fridays events, launched by the Natural History Museum of LA in an attempt to cross breed visitor demographic between parents and children, hipsters and professors, beers and lectures, live music and stuffed animal installations, was a great schmorgasboard. In a cool unfolding of fate, NHM hired the jungle[8] crew to establish a savvy and effective design to promote for First Fridays, and the jungle represented- our ad down below. (Sweet cause then we were VIP all over the place!)

This last evening of FFs began with a lecture on the parallels between dolphins and apes, a most interesting parallel. The professors who gave the lecture were sensitive to the attention spans of the diverse group, and gave nothing but quirky comments and interesting tidbits, just enough to make you want to check out the academic studies a bit further on your own.

As a museum, it was typical: the skeletal structures of a T Rex and a Triceratops duking it out in a large marble lobby- but as a music event with casual socializing, it was totally sheik. Impressive darks halls, flooded with bumping beats, lined with the diorama habitats of margays, wolverines, bongos, oryxs, guerezas, and many other alien-esque mammals that live on earth. You kinda felt like the museum had what every dance club in the world was missing: hot stuffed animals in their environments, while the humans perused and got drunk on the scene.
It was a great balance of seemingly disparate worlds, children ran through the large halls decked with glowstick jewelry, and the hipsters were dressed up as bizarrely fashionable as some of the taxidermied animals. ‘The Mountain Goats,’ a band that was playing in one of the halls, could be heard throughout the museum, whether you happened to be on the 2nd floor looking through the various habitats of marine life, or the Thomas the T Rex exhibit, or the life work of Ralph W. Schreiber’s, a huge semi-eerie hall of birds of all kind.
When disparate worlds come together in the interest of fun and curiosity, an anomaly occurs. Look out for next year babies, when the First Fridays series begins again.

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