On Wednesday 29th July our group travelled by train down to Oxford for our science visit.  After a coffee break at 'The Old Fire Station ', which is now a Performing Arts centre with a café, we walked to 'The Museum of Natural History'.  This is in a stunning gothic Victorian building which opened in 1860 to draw together scientific studies from across the university of Oxford.

The displays have been updated and now include over 7 million historical and modern specimens encompassing the natural world.  These include minerals, fossils, meteorites, dinosaur skeletons, early human skulls and lots more.

After enjoying lunch together in the museum cafe, we walked to 'The History of Science Museum'.

This much smaller museum was built in 1683 and housed the original Ashmolean collection.  We were fortunate to have a very knowledgeable guide who was able to give us further information on some of the exhibits.  There is a collection of early scientific and mathematical instruments on the ground floor, as well as the famous Einstein Blackboard in the basement - Einstein gave a lecture here in 1931, and the blackboard he used still shows his calculations..