Natural History Museum

This is one of the big three museums in South Kensington, London. Others are Science museum and Victoria and Albert museum. 

Although Natural History Museum was legally separated from British museum in 1963, this was called as British museum until 1992. The museum is sponsored by the department for culture, media and sport. 

The museum displays wide range of samples from natural history. The collection includes popular Dinosaurs gallery, Mammals. This is very famous for dinosaur skeletons and for ornate architecture.

The museum comprises of 80 million objects in five main categories. Those are botany, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. The natural museum is considered as the well-known research center in specifying taxonomy, identification and conservation. Samples collected by Charles Darwin such as collections are having scientific value rather than historical value.

The natural history museum library comprises Journals, books, artworks and manuscripts related to the researches. 

Daily attracts large number of visitors and they are in a long queue to enter the museum. It is difficult to visit the museum at the weekend and in UK school holidays.

Price

Admission to the museum is free. But Admission chargers are collected for temporary exhibitions.

Open Close Time

Seven days a week 10:00 – 17:50

The Museum is open every day except 24, 25, 26 December.

Last admission 17:30.

Address

Natural History Museum

Cromwell Road

London SW7 5BD

Web Site

www.nhm.ac.uk

Telephone

020 7942 5000


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