Natural History Museum Collection (page 8)

Natural History Museum storeroom
A general interior wideangle view of the Natural History Museums storeroom containing a selection of stuffed fish and mammal specimens and skeletons

Marine Invertebrates at the Natural History Museum
A general view of the Natural History Museums Marine Invertebrates Gallery (number 13)

The Natural History Museums Central Hall
The structure and decoration of Waterhouses Museum beautifully complement each other. The museum was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) and first opened on Easter Monday 1881

Terracotta relief sculpture at the Natural History Museum, L
Detail of terracotta relief sculpture in the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum, London. The museum was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905)

Visitors in the Earth Lab
Examining specimens in the Earth Lab

Syngnathus acicularis, deep-bodied pipefish

Scorpaena histrio, player scorpionfish
Player scorpion (Scorpaena histrio) specimens brought back by Charles Darwin on his voyage on HMS Beagle

Architectural view of main hall at the Natural History Museu
Architectural view of the Central Hall at the Natural History Museum, London. With the Diplodocus skeleton in the background

North Hall of the Natural History Museum, London
Front entrance and Cromwell Road facade of the Waterhouse building. The museum was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) and first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881. Photographed by Paul Lund

Wildlife Garden gate
The gate of the Natural History Museums Wildlife Garden. Photographed by Derek Adams, October 2003

The pond in the Wildlife Garden. Photographed by Derek Adams. Published in Wildlife Garden by Roy Vickery, 2004 page 35

Silver on Copper
A deposit of elemental, native silver (Ag) on native copper (Cu). Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London originally from Houghton Co. Michigan, U.S.A

Columbite
Specimen used by Charles Hatchett when he discovered niobium (then called columbium) and now called columbite in 1801. Mineral collection, the Natural History Museum

From the Beginning
One of the oldest rocks on Earth dating back 3, 850 million years on display in the From the Beginning gallery, the Natural History Museum, London. Specimen from Greenland

Window detail, the Natural History Museum, London
Windows on the west pavilion of the Natural History Museum, London. Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Stained glass windows above the North Hall
Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Gallery 1, The Natural History Museum at Tring
The Natural History Museum at Tring. Once the private museum of Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868-1937), and part of the Natural History Museum, London since 1937

Detail of terracotta panel from the Natural History Museum

Virginia Locus Tree
Plate 10 from Sir Hans Sloanes Hortus Siccus. Fol. 3. Vol. 180. Part of the botanical collection of the Natural History Museum, London

Floodlit view of the Waterhouse Building
Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Teloschistes chrysopthalmus, lichen
Lichen shown in its herbarium packet from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London. Some lichens look virtually the same as dried specimens as in the field

Exterior detail of The Natural History Museum, London
Detail of terracotta panel designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905). Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Topaz comprises of (aluminum silicate fluoride hydroxide). This is a specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Dolphin casting, c. 1924, The Natural History Museum
Percy Stammwitz, the skilled technician captured here in the Preparators Workshop making casts of dolphins for models in the proposed new Whale Hall

Amethyst crystals

The Main Entrance and Cromwell Road Facade of the Natural Hi
Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

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