Live Life Team
The Natural History Museum can be found in South Kensington, London. It holds 70 million life and earth science specimens and is popular for its ornate architecture exhibitions and dinosaur skeletons. Its latest addition is the modern facility designed for the valuable collections of Darwin. It is also a world-renowned centre of research and conservation.
Sir Hans Sloane’s significant collections were purchased by the British government and were placed in Bloomsbury’s Montague House in 1756. The museum’s Waterhouse building had interiors and exteriors of terracotta tiles. The central atrium has six iconic figures. Its walls were designed with stars and planets. Sculptures of flora and fauna are featured on tiles and bricks, while the east and west wings features living and extinct species. In 1986, the Natural Museum absorbed the Geological Museum. In 1996, it was relaunched as the Earth Galleries. The Natural Museum has galleries divided into the Red, Green, Blue and Orange Zones. The Red Zone explores the massive natural forces. The Green Zone explores Earth’s ecology. The Blue Zone explores dinosaurs and facts about the planet and evolution. The Orange Zone explores a wildlife garden.
The newly constructed Darwin Centre was designed for the millions of preserved specimens, part of the new development project in the museum’s history. Darwin Centre Phase One houses the Zoological department’s spirit collections, while Darwin Centre Phase Two houses entomology and botanical collections but will not open to the public until September 2009.
