The Natural History Museum is one of the three great museums located in Kensington on the Cromwell Road, London (the others are the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum).
It houses around 70 million exhibits organized in five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology.
Admission is free even if you need to pay to access some rooms. It was once part of the British Museum although now it is only a detached part of it.
Main pieces:
- Embalmed Dodo specimens (Birds room green area)
- Stuffed panda specimens (Blue mammals room area)
- Blue whale skeleton (Blue mammal room area)
- Human brain in spirit (Blue zone Human Biology room)
- Fossil skeleton of a Glyptodon (central hall)
- Fossil skeleton of a Diplodocus (Central Hall)
- Fossil skeleton of a Stegosaurus (Red zone)
- Section of a giant Sequoia (Giant Sequoia room)
- Motive model of a Tyrannosaurus (blue area dinosaur hall)
Natural History Museum
Address: Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London SW7 5BD (Regno Unito)
Phone: +44 20 7942 5000
Site:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/Location inserted by
Paola Bonometti