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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