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Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London (the others are the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum). Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road. The museum is home to life and earth science collections comprising some 70 million items. There are five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. There is also a wildlife garden containing native fauna and flora.Top photos chosen by u all:
Natural History Museum - London
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Artizen HDR 2.4.10 lock06 Natural History Museum - Kensington London The foundation of the collection was that of the Ulster doctor Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), which allowed his significant collections to be purchased by the British Government at a price well below their market value at the time. This purchase was funded by a lottery. Sloane's collection, which included dried plants, and animal and human skeletons, was initially housed in Montague House in Bloomsbury in 1756, which was the home of the British Museum. In the late 1850s, Professor Richard Owen, Superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum saw that the natural history departments needed a bigger, separate building. Land in South Kensington was purchased, and in 1864 a competition was held to design the new museum. The winning entry was submitted by Captain Francis Fowke who died shortly afterwards. The scheme was taken over by Alfred Waterhouse who substantially revised the agreed plans, and designed the façades in his own idiosyncratic Romanesque style. The original plans included wings on either side of the main building, but these plans were soon abandoned for budgetary reasons. The space these would have occupied are now taken by the Earth Galleries and Darwin Centre. Work began in 1873 and was completed in 1880. The new museum opened in 1881, although the move from the old museum was not fully completed until 1883. Both the interiors and exteriors of the Waterhouse building make extensive use of terracotta tiles to resist the sooty climate of Victorian London. The tiles and bricks feature many relief sculptures of flora and fauna, with living and extinct species featured within the west and east wings respectively. This explicit separation was at the request of Owen, and has been seen as a statement of his contemporary rebuttal of Darwin's attempt to link present species with past through the theory of natural selection[1]. The central axis of the museum is aligned with the tower of Imperial College London (formerly the Imperial Institute) and the Royal Albert Hall and Albert Memorial further north. These all form part of the complex known colloquially as Albertopolis. Text from Wikepedia
hall of lines
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The entrance hall of the Natural History Museum in London. It'd been a long time since I'd been to the museum - at least 15 years I suspect - and I'd either forgotten or never noticed the marvellous architecture of the building, especially the entrance hall with its arches, stairs and galleries. It's also possible that they've cleaned the windows, allowing more light to enter and making the awesomeness more noticeable! I love the way the different elements work together - the horizontal and vertical lines, and the arches - to create the the sense of space and grandeur inside the building. Anyway, we went in on Saturday to have a look at the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition (some great stuff, btw; go have a look if you're in London) and I was immediately struck by the building. So after the exhibition I wandered off round the gallery of this hall taking photos whilst my mother sat on a bench and got hungry...
The Central Hall
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This is my favourite place in London - the Natural History Museum. Aside from the amazing architecture, this place is filled with specimens you will never see anywhere else: the 1,300-yr old giant seqoia, the world's largest egg, the sabre tooth tiger, the dodo and so much more. A must if you visit London :)
natural history windows - black and white
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I am very happy with this, no adjustment of the exposure off camera, a bit of dodge and burn to enhance the shadow/highlight at the back of the hall. Spot metering rocks also in rated 43/50 in the rate and comment:amazing photos group
The vault
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Inside the Museum of Natural History main building. (36 individual shots)
Dinosaurs at The Natural History Museum, London.
.. The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London (the others are the Science Museum, and the
Museum of Natural History
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Natural History Museum
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New York Natural History Museum and Central Park
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Dioramas from the Museum of Natural History, New York
Lewis W. Bernard, Chairman of the American Museum of Natural History Visit the web site of the Museum of Natural Hitory's dioramas: http://www
American Museum of Natural History
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Dinosaurs Natural History Museum London
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Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
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Natural History Museum Ligourio
A walk around the main galleries of the Ligourio Natural History Museum in the Argolis province of Greece. A nice collection of rocks, minerals and fossils with special
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Natural History Museum of Oxford University
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Day 12 - NM Natural History Museum
is now a multicolored multidimensional swirling amalgamation of light. Totally incredible!The natural history of New Mexico is so fascinating. There were life size replicas of dinosaurs
Noisy Natural History Museum
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Dallas Museum of Natural History Dinosaurs
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