The Natural History Museum in London 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, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. The museum is a center of research in taxonomy, identification and conservation. Given the age of the institution, many of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value, such as specimens collected by Charles Darwin. The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture. Although commonly referred to as the Natural History Museum, it was officially known as British Museum (Natural History) until 1992.
One of my personal heroes Charles Darwin.
Being interested in Paleontology and human evolution it was fascinating to see a cast of the fossil remains of “Lucy”.
