Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is home to the nation’s finest collection of natural history specimens. It is one of the UK’s top visitor attractions, with more than three million people every year enjoying exhibitions, events and education programmes.

The Museum has been gathering knowledge about the natural world for over 250 years and is known worldwide as a leader in scientific research. The Natural History Museum collections originated in the Sloane collections of the 17th and 18th centuries, and today have grown to over 70 million plants, animals, fossils, rocks and minerals from around the world. Behind the scenes, more than 300 scientists and students use the collections in research into problems such as disease, climate change and threats to the Earth’s biodiversity.

www.nhm.ac.uk