This is a side view with a well or drinking trough for horses in a courtyard inside the National Museum of Natural History in Mdina. I took this shot as we were on the way out from Mdina to Rabat. The museum is housed in a palace built for Grand Master Antonio Manoel de Vilhena in 1724. I could have taken the shot from between the iron bars but preferred it like this.
I found an interesting history of this building which was built in the 18th century. The museum is housed in a palace constructed in the Parisian Baroque style by Grand Master Antonio Manoel de Vilhena. It served as a temporary hospital during the 1837 cholera outbreak, as a sanitorium for British troops in 1860 and a hospital of tuberculosis patients till January 1956. On 22nd June 1973 it was converted into the National Museum of Natural History as it is today.
Among the biological collections is a flying squid washed ashore in the 1980s, a 4000-year-old mummified Nile crocodile and a tooth of a Giant White Shark
Thank you for all your visits, for your comments and for the fav's on yesterday's picture.
Interesting history in your narrative and I love the peeping through the gate - the sturdy black wrought iron gate with the view of the pale sandstone? courtyard !
Ian
Wonderful