Natural History Museum

The exciting experience of this museum begins after entering, on having seen the precious hall presided by the skeleton of an enormous Diplodocus besides a Mastodon found in Tagua Tagua's Lagoon, Chile.

It was constructed between 1873 and 1880 to shelter the increasing collection of skeletons, plants and fossils that were constituting a section of the British Museum. Legally the museum of natural history remained as part of the British Museum until 1963. In 1986 it absorbed the nearby geological Museum acquiring The Natural's official name History Museum.

The classic style of the decoration takes us behind in the time and seems that we are going to cross with English gentlemen with bowler hat.

The museum divides principally in five areas: Botany, zoology, entomology (insects), mineralogy and paleontology. It (he, she) possesses a varied collection with more than 70 million specimens and objects in exhibition.

The most famous zone is the zone of paleontology, a very pleasant tour full of skeletons of dinosaur of the most diverse heights and types. The visit to this part ends in a room in which there is a great articulated tiranosaurio that creates realistic enough effects.

Of the rest of zones stands out the enormous collection of dissected animals that shape the zone of zoology and entomology. Considered one of the major collections of the world of animal specimens, stand out especially those t

hat were donated by Darwin to the museum.

Impressive they are also the rooms dedicated to the minerals, with spectacular collections of precious stones.

General Information:

The entry is free to the general exhibition.

It opens every day of 10.00 - 17.50. The museum is in Exhibition Road, in Kensington. The most nearby stop of meter is South Kensington

, to which Circle and Piccadilly comes near with the lines District.

The buses that stop nearby are 14, 49, 70, 74, 345, 360, 414 and C1.

Pieces of advice:

- The museum is thought to a great extent for children so families will not have problems to move. There are all kinds of services like restaurants, zones of picnic, and elevators for carts...

- After coming, after going through the con

trols of entry (you will have to show the content of bags that you take) look for a plane of the museum to know where everything is.

- The museum of Natural History is stuck to the museum of Sciences, so consider visiting both. Though they are enormous and you might spend days in each of them, for a general glimpse it is sufficient to use hour and a half for each one.

- The own building of the museum makes the visit both externally and in the inside worthwhile.

- Harrods is 10 minutes on foot, is not a bad idea to programme one evening combined of purchases and culture visiting the museums and shopping at Knightsbridge.

- The museum shop is very interesting.

The museum is divided in four zones:

- Red zone: the marvels of our planet with the volcanoes, the earthquakes and our giant model of the Earth.

- Green zone: to investigate the ecology of the Earth. Dodo knows one. To explore the magnificent central Hall including Charles Darwin's statue and our new roof tree installation.

- Blue zone: the experience of the age of the dinosaurs. Discover a world of big mammals, the blue whale, and learn on the human body.

- Orange zone: it explores Vida Silvestre's Garden and the new Darwin Center