The hidden worlds within natural history museums - Joshua Drew

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When you think of natural history museums, you might picture exhibits filled with ancient lifeless things, like dinosaurs or meteorites. But behind that educational exterior, there are hidden laboratories where scientific breakthroughs are made. Joshua Drew gives a breakdown of some of the hidden worlds within these museums.
Lesson by Joshua Drew, animation by Provincia Studio.

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Imagine what was going on downstairs in Night at The Museum

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So they legit have secret laboratories deep underneath museums?

[@heybuddyyouincapetown]

They're not secret, but not just anyone can walk around and poke stuff down there

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[@919ben919]

the second he said that the museum had been collecting the birds eggs my little brother said "well there's your fucking problem, quit taking there eggs"

[@Ghost00117]

Did you correct his usage of "there" to "their"?

[@Rstars11]

THAT'S funny cause my 6 year-old brain, trapped in a 50 y/o body, said the same thing!

[@ashleyashleym2969]

Hm, another career path I could follow, working in a natural history museum, never thought about that, definitely adding that to my possible career goals.

[@duckiebee2831]

Imagine what it was like on Earth when all the events were happening!

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We love this video! Explore!

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Thanks guys!

[@donut5818]

I went to the museum pictured! It is the American Museum Of Natural History. (Even tho the Allosaurus and the Barosaurus should have switched places)

[@StarBoundFables]

That's super cool!

[@Bookworm3497]

Gone, but not forgotten.

[@sanuku535]

My own goal is to either teah History, uncover it, care for it, or presente it in the musem, for the history is the greatest of teachers.
For it is life itself.

[@ThatShyGuyMatt]

If NY wasn't a nightmare to visit like it was last time I went, I'd visit the museum. Granted it would be way cooler if it came alive like in the movies lol.

[@alanl9497]

Why was ny a nightmare? I had a blast there!

[@ThatShyGuyMatt]

Just over hectic, couldn't get anywhere easy, rude people.

[@EdwinLuciano]

SonOfAKing I live in NYC and share your opinion. But I think that coming just for the Museum of Natural History is worth the hassle. It's truly an awesome place. I go once a year.

[@19lionkingfan]

Edwin Luciano Why do you like it so much?

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19lionkingfan
It has just about *everything* that a person curious about the world around them wants to see. If you are just interested in jewelry, for example, they have a collection so awesome that it's worth the price of admission.
Well, the jewels are worth much more than the price of admission but you know what I mean.

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Talks about Walden, mentions Thoreau. Talks about DDT, and no mention of Rachel Carson. :/

[@MsSBVideos]

This is great and all, but how do you see the collections if they are secret?

[@CapuccinoMachine]

only scientists can.

[@brieb4317]

As I’m sitting here at 3am thinking of museums

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I want to be such researcher in future.

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I wonder if, eight years or so later, they actually managed to get a few steps closer to that goal...

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For the title: museums = musées in french

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Yeah🎉

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I love addison anderson's voice

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Does anyone want to be the best fossil ever, or is it only me?

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Overlord Reptilian You gotta pose for the camera!

[@hanyoo1172]

0:15 is it a typo? meteorites.

[@icantikglobal2997]

anyone from dan brown's the lost symbol?this reminds me of the smithsonian museum

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Bold of you to assume we could fund those facilities.

[@Aaron-ej7im]

When bird eats those heaps of dead bugs, The DDT is accumulated in their bodies...

[@Straightforwardpk]

Earth, is a museum

[@jeffersonwongk.h.7757]

I think of dinosaurs, I think of memes...that refers to..
"Its a Diplodoculus"

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I think the museum's director would be mad ì we entered those places

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Wrote some Vietnamese

[@catherineshannon1113]

amazing i sooooooooooooooo want to go to a museum to bad i can't go to the secret labortories

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Omlets everywhere😂😂

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there were omelettes everywhere

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brainscoop

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Heyo 2020

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I wannna be a cat

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Killer Cat I wanna be an ender man

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I wanna be a relative of shrek

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Plants 🍃🍂🌿🌿🍂🍃🍂🌿🍂🍃🌳🌲!

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I dunno if they see the world a purple one day....
It just might... happen.

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Awwwwwwwwwwwww

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im the 7th rep :D

[@jp4431]

1:35 the population is crashing because the museum is collecting their eggs!

[@sarapis4375]

I understand what he is trying to say, which has nothing wrong with it...but these metaphors are somehow creepy

[@toongdoo308]

Dino

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Only dino 🦕s, are u sure?

[@ImperialEarthEmpire]

no, i dont want future scientist to dicsover my life, its embarrassing...

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0:16 and my friends's ex-girlfriend

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No she's not worth comparing to rocks

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DINO

[@JonatasAdoM]

I'd rather have DDT than eagles. Both kills insects.