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Natural History Museum London
natural history museum
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Founded 1881
Opening date 10:00-17:50
Founder Richard Owen
Location
South Kensington
Address Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Visitors per year
4 105 106 people (2009)
4 434 520 people (2017)
5 284 023 people (2015)
5 226 320 people (2018)
3 250 376 people (2004)
3 080 401 people (2005)
3 754 496 people (2006)
3 600 119 people (2007)
3 698 500 people (2008)
4,647,613 people (2010)
4 873 275 people (2011)
5 021 762 people (2012)
5 356 884 people (2013)
5 388 295 people (2014)
4 624 113 people (2016)
5 423 932 people (2019)
1,296,763 people (2020)
1 571 413 people (2021)

Director Doug Gurr

Website http://www.nhm.ac.uk/

The Natural History Museum is one of the three largest museums located on Exhibition Road[en] in South Kensington. The collection includes more than 70 million exhibits in botany (6 million plants), zoology (55 million animal specimens, half of which are insects in the entomology department), mineralogy (500 thousand stones and minerals) and paleontology (9 million fossils)

The basis of the collection is the collection of Dr. Hans Sloan (1660-1753), which includes a herbarium and skeletons of animals and humans, originally exhibited at Montague House (Bloomsbury); they were in charge of the British Museum at that time.

In the 1850s, Professor R. Owen (director of the natural history department of the British Museum) raised the question of expanding the collection and the need for its own premises. In 1864, a plot of land in Kensington was bought for the museum.

The architectural design was developed by Francis Fowke and, after his death, was finalized by Alfred Waterhouse. The facade is designed in the Romano-Byzantine style. Construction began in 1873 and ended in 1880. The museum opened in 1881; in 1963 it finally separated from the British Museum.

Until 1992, it was called the British Museum (Natural History), and in the scientific literature it was known under the abbreviation B.M. (N.H.) or BMNH

Some other collections are managed by the Natural History Museum of London, such as the Natural History Museum at Tring.

The museum is best known for its collection of dinosaur skeletons in the central hall, including a replica of Carnegie's famous Diplodocus skeleton (26 meters long; the original is in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History) and a mechanical model of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. In the zoological part there is a 30-meter blue whale. The museum has an extensive collection of meteorites.

The exterior and interior of the museum building are finished in terracotta by Gibbs And Canning Limited of Tamworth. The bricks are decorated with images of plants, animals and fossils. Entrance to the museum is free. The nearest tube station is South Kensington.

Video shot entirely on GoPro HERO 8 Black

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