The Natural History Museum of London

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This document is a fully written presentation about The Natural History Museum of London. We will present what it exhibits inside, its date of creation, its creator, and how it was built and imagined.

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[...] You wil also be able to compare the anatomy of a horse with a human. You may also explore the Human biology department and find out about human evolution and how hormones can affect your body, perception and memories function thanks to a real sample of DNA and a real brain. You can also investigate the lives of ocean inhabitants in the Marine Invertebrates gallery with a beautiful array of shells, from the giant clam to the queen conch with Charles Darwin's proposed theory of how coral reefs and atolls formed. [...]

[...] In 1856 Sir Richard Owen - a brilliant natural scientist who came up with the name for dinosaurs - took charge of the British Museum's natural history collection. Alfred Waterhouse designed the Natural History Museum, London, using terracotta for the entire building because this material was more resistant to Victorian London's difficult climate. The result is one of the most striking examples of Romanesque architecture, which is considered a work of art and has become one of London's most iconic landmarks. Owen decided the Natural History Museum should be free and accessible to all. [...]

[...] The Natural History Museum of London Presentation: The NHM exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington. The museum houses some 80 million life and earth science specimens, organized in five collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. It is also a centre for research specialising in taxonomy. Because of the great age of this institution, many collections have a long history and high scientific value, such as the specimens collected by Charles Darwin. [...]