Natural History Museum in London
London Natural History Museum, founded in 1881, is one of the largest museums of South Kensington. Museum visitors is tens of millions of pieces of zoology, botany, entomology, mineralogy and paleontology. The basis of the collection is a collection of Dr. Hans Sloane, including herbarium, animal and human skeletons that had previously exhibited in the British Museum .
The most popular exhibits - dinosaur skeletons, including the famous 26-meter-long Diplodocus, as well as a huge mechanical model of Tyrannosaurus rex. In the zoological department located 30 meter whale. You should definitely see a huge sequoia, whose age reaches 1,300 years! For an interesting collection of museum's collection and meteorites. Here Darwin Centre opened with a collection of organisms preserved in alcohol and wildlife garden.
The museum is interesting and informative for children and adults. Unseen artifacts, research and introduction to the wonderful world of nature leave no one indifferent. Hours: daily from 10 am to 17:50 hours. Admission is free. The nearest metro station - South Kensington, bus number 14, 49, 70, 74, 345, 360, 414, 430 and C1.