Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum  is situated on  Exhibition Road in London.

The Natural History Museum is home to science specimens comprising some 70 million items.It

has five main collections that are: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Paleontology and

Zoology.The most famous fossils are a skeleton of a diplodocus in the entrance, and another

skeleton of a mastodon.

 

It was built by Alfred Waterhouse between the years 1873 and 1880. It was founded in 1881. Waterhouse changed Fowke’s Renaissance design to German Romanesque, creating the beautiful Waterhouse Building we know today.The Natural History Museum first opened its doors to the public on Easter Monday in 1881, but its origins go back more than 250 years .