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Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum in London is one of the three great museums in the Kensington district.

The Museum, opened in 1881, was born as part of the British Museum where the collection was initially exhibited. The latter was put together by Sir. Hans Sloane and at the time counted specimens of dried plants and animal and human skeletons.

In 1856 the English paleontologist Richard Owen was appointed as superintendent of the museum, who bought several land in the Kensington area and started construction work in 1873 which ended in the year of opening. He is therefore responsible for the current building that houses the Natural History Museum.

In 1881 all the exhibits were then moved from the British to the new museum and this was a move that lasted about a year.

Today's collection is made up of about 70 million finds divided into five collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology.

The museum is divided on a total of four floors and 33 exhibition halls divided into the red zone, the green zone, the blue zone and the orange zone.

The Natural History Museum in London has unique pieces such as stuffed Dodos, stuffed pandas, the skeleton of a blue whale, a human brain in spirit, the fossil cheleleton of a Glyptodon, the fossil skeleton of a Diplodocus, the fossil skeleton of a Stegosaurus, the section of a giant sequoia, the driving model of a Tyrannosaurus.

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Address

Cromwell Road
SW7 5BD London

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