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Natural History Museum

Museum of natural history specimens and dinosaur skeletons

📍 Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD Brompton
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Natural History Museum
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About

A museum in South Kensington exhibiting vast ranges of specimens from natural history, including some 80 million items in five collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology. The museum is known for its dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture, featuring a blue whale skeleton hanging from the central hall's ceiling.

Things to do here

View dinosaur skeletonsSee specimen collectionsExamine the blue whale skeletonVisit the Darwin CentreBrowse natural history exhibits

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South Kensington · 4 min walk
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Gloucester Road · 6 min walk
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Knightsbridge · 15 min walk
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