Alfred Waterhouse Collection (page 3)

Terracotta panels
Detail of terracotta panels in front galleries, showing marine life. Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Exterior view of The Natural History Museum, London
View of the Waterhouse Building from Cromwell Road with iron gates in foreground. Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Detail view of the Central Hall ceiling at the Natural Histo
Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Detail of terracotta moulding of a monkey
Part of the intricate interior architecture found in the Natural History Museums Waterhouse building, designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905)

Detail view of the Central Hall at the Natural History Museu
Detail of the main staircase in the Central Hall. Designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905), the Museum opened to the public in 1881

Floodlit view of the Natural History Museum, London
Viewed from the south side of Cromwell Road. The museum was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) in the 1860s and opened to the public on Easter Monday 1881

Decorative ceiling panels in the Natural History Museums Ce
Coffee, tobacco and cotton - three of the 162 plant designs which form the ceiling decoration of the Central Hall. The plants are of economic or medicinal importance

Interior detail from the Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) and opened to the public on Easter Monday 1881

The Natural History Museum, 1881
An exterior view of the Natural History Museum, London, from the Cromwell Road, 1881. The museum was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) and first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Geology support staff, Natural History Museum
The identity of this group of characters on the front steps of the Museum remains uncertain. It is believed to include Geology Department support staff, c. 1901

The Natural History Museum from Cromwell Road, c. 1890
By the 1890s travel to South Kensington was much more convenient, and visitor figures exceeded 400, 000 a year for the first time

Digitalis purpurea, foxglove
One of the 36 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the North Hall at the Natural History Museum, London

Inula helenium, elfwort
One of the 36 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the North Hall at the Natural History Museum, London

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