Natural History Museum - A Center Of Attraction
The Natural History Museum is one of the big three museums in South Kensington, London. It is a wonderful Victorian building housing the weird and wonderful of the natural world. The Natural History Museum is world famous for its dinosaur skeletons.
Natural History Museum Ice Rink, London’s most spectacular winter attraction. Whether you are a novice or an expert, it’s the perfect way to welcome in the winter season with family, friends or that special date.
A highlight of the history museum, the Central Hall resembles a cathedral nave quite fitting for a time when the natural sciences were challenging the biblical tenets of Christian orthodoxy. Naturalist and first superintendent of the museum Richard Owen celebrated the building as a 'cathedral to nature'.
The History of museum is divided into four coloured zones. The green zone concentrates on facts about life, the planet, environment and evolution. The red zone explores our ever changing planet, how it was shaped and its place within the universe. In the blue zone you can marvel at the diversity of life on our planet from blue whales to the smallest invertebrates. Finally the orange zone takes you into the Wildlife garden (open between April and October) and to the Darwin centre although you need to book an explore tours to do this.
Your first impression as you enter is the dramatically over-arching skeleton of a Diplodocus (nicknamed Dippy), which inspires children to yank their parents to the fantastic dinosaur gallery in the Blue Zone, with its impressive overhead walkway passing Dromaeosaurus (a small and agile meat eater) before reaching the history museum’s star tourist attraction the roaring ans shaking animatronic T-rex.
The museum’s enormous assortment of artifacts and specimen (70 million+) covering life on the planet could be overwelming. The museum is split into different color-coded zones, each concentrating on a particular facet of life on the world.The gathering of dinosaur skeletons is among the museum’s biggest attractions. There are many life-sized models within the Dinosaur hall and you will also encounter the skeleton of the Diplodocus within the central hall.
Natural History Museum Ice Rink, London’s most spectacular winter attraction. Whether you are a novice or an expert, it’s the perfect way to welcome in the winter season with family, friends or that special date.
A highlight of the history museum, the Central Hall resembles a cathedral nave quite fitting for a time when the natural sciences were challenging the biblical tenets of Christian orthodoxy. Naturalist and first superintendent of the museum Richard Owen celebrated the building as a 'cathedral to nature'.
The History of museum is divided into four coloured zones. The green zone concentrates on facts about life, the planet, environment and evolution. The red zone explores our ever changing planet, how it was shaped and its place within the universe. In the blue zone you can marvel at the diversity of life on our planet from blue whales to the smallest invertebrates. Finally the orange zone takes you into the Wildlife garden (open between April and October) and to the Darwin centre although you need to book an explore tours to do this.
Your first impression as you enter is the dramatically over-arching skeleton of a Diplodocus (nicknamed Dippy), which inspires children to yank their parents to the fantastic dinosaur gallery in the Blue Zone, with its impressive overhead walkway passing Dromaeosaurus (a small and agile meat eater) before reaching the history museum’s star tourist attraction the roaring ans shaking animatronic T-rex.
The museum’s enormous assortment of artifacts and specimen (70 million+) covering life on the planet could be overwelming. The museum is split into different color-coded zones, each concentrating on a particular facet of life on the world.The gathering of dinosaur skeletons is among the museum’s biggest attractions. There are many life-sized models within the Dinosaur hall and you will also encounter the skeleton of the Diplodocus within the central hall.
