Osteology Museum in Oklahoma City/ Day Two of The Birthday Week

     Note: This is a continuation of the post I made either in late May or early June about my birthday week and what I had decided to do for that week. As I have stated multiple times before, a lot had happened between then and now. Sorry for the big delay.

     Wednesday May 24th was the busiest day for me as I went back to Oklahoma City by myself after coming home from there the evening before with my mother and two sisters. As I explained before, a part of my goal for my birthday week this year is to go to museums and other places that I have never been to before, and that were in my bucket list to visit; and three of these places are all in Oklahoma City. I also had already planned to be in Oklahoma City before my grandfather was admitted into the hospital. I am sure a lot of you guys have probably been to these places yourselves. I just haven't yet and I wanted to experience it.

      Anyway, the first stop on Wednesday was the Museum of Osteology.I had actually heard of this place last year as I was looking for stuff to do in Oklahoma around my birthday last year and I was so excited to see that something like this exists because I love this kind of stuff.  I have always been weirdly fascinated with skeletons. I do not know why, I can not explain it. They have skeletons of humans and all kinds of animals. My favorite was, for sure, the anaconda skeleton and the other snake skeletons. They also have human skeletons and skulls that had been deformed by medical conditions that person had in their life time, and unfortunately that also mean small kids or even babies. The strangest ones are definitely the skulls of elephants and giraffes because they do not even look real. In fact, they look rather cartoonish in person and they look like something that should not exist. They quite obviously do exist. After I learned about the museum last year, I also discovered that the museum had a museum kitty, and when I say that I mean an actual living kitty. They have many other cat skeletons, but this one is alive. I was actually disappointed because I did not get to see it. So hopefully next time! I literally follow this cat's Tiktok account. By the way, they tell you coming in that all of these except for a very select few are real. 

     This place has so much stuff and I guess for a while they were the only osteology museum to exist in the United States. Now there is another museum over in Florida and I think it is run by the same management for this museum I am speaking of now. 

      I have to say the gears in my artist brain was seriously kicking in because I kept thinking, "Oh, I can use this as a reference for a painting idea!" But with just about all the skeletons. And I kept thinking about etchings from around the northern  Renaissance with images of the five horsemen of the apocalypse.