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  Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum is located on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London. The museum has a huge collection of life and earth science specimens comprising some 70 million items which are divided into five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Paleontology and Zoology. The museum also has one million library volumes and the third largest collection of art on paper in the United Kingdom. The museum is also a world-renowned centre of research, specialising in taxonomy, identification and conservation. It’s has some of the priceless collections and artifacts such as specimens collected by Darwin. The museum was established in 1881.
The museums first artifacts came from the collection of the Ulster doctor Sir Hans Sloane, who contributed by selling his collections to the British Government at a down to earth price.
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Some of the exhibits include: 32 m long replica Diplodocus carnegii skeleton, which also featured in many cartoons and other media, including the 1975 Disney comedy One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing. Another displays is parallel skeleton and model of a blue whale which weigh’s an enormous ten tons and is twenty five meters long. Amongst the articles displayed in the Darwin Centre is Archie, an 8 meter long giant squid taken alive in fishing net near the Falkland Islands in 2004.
The museum has four major galleries (Red Zone, Green Zone, Blue Zone and Orange Zone) which are divided into various sections:
RED ZONE - Earth Lab, Earth's Treasury, Lasting Impressions, Restless Surface, Earth Today and Tomorrow, From the Beginning, The Power Within, Visions of Earth.
GREEN ZONE - Birds, Creepy Crawlies, Ecology, Fossil Marine Reptiles, Giant Sequoia and Central Hall, Minerals, The Vault, Our Place in Evolution, Plant Power, Primates, Investigate.
BLUE ZONE - Dinosaurs (Moving roaring model of T. Rex in the dinosaur area), Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, Human Biology, Jerwood, Marine Invertebrates, Mammals, Mammals (Blue Whale), Nature Live.
ORANGE ZONE - Wildlife Garden, Darwin Centre.
The nearest tube station is South Kensington and the museum opens at 10:00 am and closes at 5:50 pm.
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