Life Through A Lens Collection

Scaffolding in Central Hall, 1925
This photograph, taken in February 1925, marked the cleaning and redecoration of the North and Central Halls by the Office of Works

Martin Alister Campbell Hinton (1883-1961)
Portrait of Martin Alister Campbell Hinton, a zoologist and keeper of zoology at the British Museum (Natural History). From Piltdown, A Scientific Forgery

Darwin statue, September 1927
The 2.5 tonne marble statue of Darwin was unveiled in June 1885 after a worldwide public appeal raised &, xfa; 4500. The statue by Sir Joseph Boehm cost &

Taxidermists at work

Display cases in the Central Hall at the Natural History Mus
This grand vista of the Central Hall sweeps from the bronze statue of Sir Richard Owen by Thomas Brock to the marble statue of Charles Darwin on the staircase. Photograph taken in April 1906

Giant deer, February 1893. The Natural History Museum, Lond
Photographed by J.D. Pemberton in February 1893, this Megalocerus giganteus skeleton represents an extinct race of giant deer (not elk) that had a distribution throughout Europe

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

Scientists at play, 1899
An attendant in the Botany Library, Robert Hugh Bunting captured his colleagues at play in this humorous private photograph of Museum life taken in 1899

Tiger specimen, c. 1925
Children viewing a mounted tiger specimen at the Natural History Museum, London

The Museum from Cromwell Road, c. 1880
After the Great Exhibition of 1851, land between Cromwell Road and Hyde Park had been set aside to create a centre for science and arts. The Museums foundation stone was laid here in 1873

Woodward Bernard Barham (1853-1930)
Mr Woodward Bernard Barham, a librarian (seated right) and his staff. Barham worked in the General Library at the Natural History Museum, London. 1909

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