Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum is a landmark that truly stands out, with its Romanesque Revival facade designed by Alfred Waterhouse, opened by 1881. Inside, you’re in a building that houses some 80 million specimens across five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology, and zoology, all curated to advance taxonomy, identification, and conservation. This is one of three major museums along Exhibition Road—the other two being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum—though its main frontage faces Cromwell Road, a distinctive street-side greeting. The collection reflects a long history of exploration, including Darwin-era specimens, which gives the halls a sense of scientific drama as you walk through galleries that feel almost cathedral-like in scale. …
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