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The Natural History Museum is the premiere natural history museum of the United Kingdom, founded in 1881 as the British Museum of Natural History. It houses a collection of more than 80 million natural history artifacts in its lovely museum facility in South Kensington, located adjacent on Exhibition Road to the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Visitors can explore the museum's botany, entomology, zoology, mineralogy, and paleontology collection exhibits for free throughout the year and see impressive displays such as a 105-foot skeleton of popular dinosaur species Diplodocus. Other significant holdings include specimens collected from around the world by renowned 19th-century naturalist Charles Darwin. Natural history volumes, manuscripts, and art collections are held at the museum's extensive research library, which is open to the public via special appointment.
Cromwell Rd, Kensington, London SW7 5BD, UK, Phone: +44-20-79-42-50-00
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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