Natural History Museum
Formerly called Darwin Centre Live, the Nature Live programme of free events gives visitors an opportunity to meet and talk with the scientists who work behind the scenes at the museum. Live events take place every day at 12.30 GMT, with subjects from evolution and climate change, to biodiversity and space. Visitors can ask questions, see specimens that are not normally on public display, and participate in video link-ups to laboratory spaces and field work sites around the world. The events are also webcast live on the museum's website, and online viewers can participate by emailing in questions or comments. Previous events are archived online.
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Location and access
The closest London Underground station is South Kensington — there is a tunnel from the station that emerges close to the entrances of all three museums. Admission is free, though there are donation boxes in the foyer.
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Times and dates
The Natural History Museum is a National Museum and has offered free entry since 2001. However, there is an entry charge for some temporary exhibitions. Details of current exhibitions and charges can be found at www.nhm.ac.uk. The Museum is open every day (except the 24th/25th/26th December) from 10:00. Last entry is at 17:30 and the Museum closes at 17:50.
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Natural History Museum at Tring
The NHM also has a sister museum, located at Tring, Hertfordshire. Built by local eccentric Lionel Walter Rothschild, the NHM took ownership in 1938. In 2007, the museum announced the name would be changed to the Natural History Museum at Tring, though the older name, the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum is still in widespread use.
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Gallery
 The Cromwell Road entrance |
 The Central Hall |
 The Whale Hall |
 An example of "wet" storage from a shelf in the Tank Room within the Darwin Centre (Phase 1) |
 Skaters outside December 2006 |
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See also
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References
- ^ Edwards E. 1870. Lives of the founders of the British Museum. London.
- ^ Gunther, Albert 1975. A century of zoology at the British Museum. London.
- ^ Gunther, Albert 1981. The founders of science at the British Museum, 1753-1900. Halesworth, London.
- ^ Barber, L. 1980. The heyday of natural history 1820-1870. Cape, London: Chapter 'Omnium gatherum'
- ^ Bryson (2003), p. 81.
- ^ Review by Miles Russell of Discovering Dorothea: the Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter Dorothea Bate by Karolyn Shindler at ucl.ac.uk (accessed 23 November 2007)
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Bibliography
- Dr Martin Lister: A bibliography by Geoffrey Keynes. St Paul's Bibliographies (UK). ISBN 0 906795 04 4 (Includes illustrations by Lister's wife and daughter).
- The Travelling Naturalists (1985) by Clare Lloyd. (Study of 18th Century Natural History - Includes Charles Waterton, John Hanning Speke, Henry Seebohm and Mary Kingsley) Contains colour and black and white reproductions. Croom Helm (UK). ISBN 0 7099 1658 2
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External links
- Official website of the Natural History Museum
- Architectural history and description from the Survey of London
- Maps of grid reference TQ267792
- Review of the "Diaroma Landscapes" on Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- Natural History Museum information and photography
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