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Natural History Museum: by Priscilla Manrique Espinoza

The Natural History Museum in London exhibits a vast collection of natural history specimens across its five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology, and zoology. It is located on Exhibition Road in South Kensington and houses around 80 million specimens. The building was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and features terracotta mouldings representing the past and present diversity of nature. It is a major center for research in taxonomy, identification, and conservation.

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Natural History Museum: by Priscilla Manrique Espinoza

The Natural History Museum in London exhibits a vast collection of natural history specimens across its five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology, and zoology. It is located on Exhibition Road in South Kensington and houses around 80 million specimens. The building was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and features terracotta mouldings representing the past and present diversity of nature. It is a major center for research in taxonomy, identification, and conservation.

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NATURAL

HISTORY
MUSEUM
BY PRISCILLA MANRIQUE ESPINOZA
LOCATION OF NATURAL HISTORY
MUSEUM
Is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various
segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road
in South Kensington,

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It should have looked like the Royal
Albert Hall

Francis Fowke, who was already responsible for the Royal


Albert Hall and parts of the V&A, won, and submitted his
designs. However, he died a year later, and the project was
passed on to Alfred Waterhouse, who significantly changed
Fowke's plans,

. The terracotta mouldings represent the past and present diversity of nature.
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
In 1989 the museum publicly re-branded itself as The Natural History Museum and
effectively stopped using the title British Museum (Natural History)

Formaban parte de los


diseños de Waterhouse

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CONTENIDO 02

• The collection was that of the Ulster doctor


Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753).
• The British Government bought it at price
well below their market value at the time.
• Sloane's collection, which included dried
plants, and animal and human skeletons,
was initially housed in Montagu House,
Bloomsbury (1756) which was the home of
the British Museum.

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NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The museum is home to life and earth science specimens
comprising some 80 million items within five main
collections:
 Botany
 Entomology,
 Mineralogy,
 Paleontology
 Zoology.
The museum is a centre of research specialising
in taxonomy, identification and conservation.

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GALLERIES

RED ZONE GREEN ZONE


It is a gallery themed around the • Birds
changing history of the Earth. • Creepy Crawlies
• Fossil Marine Reptiles
Earth's Treasury shows specimens of • Hintze Hall
rocks, minerals and gemstones behind • Minerals
glass in a dimly lit gallery. Lasting • The Vault
Impressions is a small gallery containing • Fossils from Britain
specimens of rocks, plants and minerals, • Anning Rooms (exclusive space for Members
of which most can be touched. and Patrons of the Museum)
• Investigate
• East Pavilion (space for changing Wildlife
Photographer of the Year exhibition)

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MAJOR SPECIMENS AND EXHIBITS
One of the most famous and certainly most prominent of the exhibits—nicknamed "Dippy"—
is a 105-foot (32 m)-long replica of a Diplodocus carnegii skeleton which was on display for
many years within the central hall. The cast was given as a gift by the Scottish-American
industrialist Andrew Carnegie, after a discussion with King Edward VII, then a keen trustee of
the British Museum.

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BLUE ZONE

• Dinosaurs
• Fish, Amphibians and Reptiles
• Human Biology
• Images of Nature
• The Jerwood Gallery (temporary exhibition space)
• Marine Invertebrates
• Mammals
ORANGE ZONE
• Mammals Hall (blue whale model)
• Treasures in the Cadogan Gallery
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• Wildlife Garden
• Darwin Centre 9
VISIT
•The Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD

•FREE ENTRY

Open every day 10.00-17.50


Last entry 17.30
Closed 24-26 December
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