This is the ship's bell from the Erebus, one of the two ships from the Franklin Expedition that tried to find the "northwest passage" that would let ships get from the north Atlantic to the north Pacific by going up over Canada. If you don't know the story, the result was that the Erebus and her sister ship, the Terror, were frozen into the ice for two winters, and all crew members eventually lost after they attempted to walk back to civilization. The story is only now being pieced together as artifacts are located. There's good, if heavily fictionalized, account, called The Terror.
There's also a great pterodactyl (or something similar) over the main lobby area. Check out the size of those drumsticks:
Down in the Pompeii exhibit itself, I turned left where last time I'd turned right and found this interesting windchime on display:
Oh, those crazy Romans.
My photo of this didn't turn out last time - a bronze statue found in a garden:
Many of these bronzes have white stone eyes and coppery pupils. The effect is somewhat unnerving.
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