Natural History Museum Collection (page 9)

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

Bird Collections housed at the Natural History Museum at Tring, part of the Natural History Museum, London

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

Scorodite comprises of (hydrated zinc arsenate) and is characterized by brownish-green crystals. Specimen from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Russian topaz
Topaz comprises of (aluminum silicate fluoride hydroxide) and is the birthstone of November. Brown topaz specimens from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Detail of interior columns, the Natural History Museum, Lond
Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Interior view of the Natural History Museum, London

The Rare Book Room at the Natural History Museum, London
Part of the Museums General Library which houses many original natural history drawings and paintings as well as books and manuscripts

Scotlandite comprises of (lead sulphite) and derives from the sulphates group. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London originally from Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland

The Natural History Museum illuminated at night, October 201
The Waterhouse Buiding of the Natural History Museum, London was designed by Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) and first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881.< br> Visitors to the Natural History

The Mary Anning room within the Natural History Museum, London

Gallery 3
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

Jerwood Gallery terracotta
1999 restoration of the Jerwood Gallery terracotta

Pyrope garnet
A cut stone and collection of crystals of pink pyrope garnet (magnesium aluminum silicate). Specimens from the Natural History Museum, London

Schultenite comprises of (lead arsenate hydroxide) and derives from the phosphates group. Specimen from the Natural History Museum, London

Schneiderhohnite
A type specimen of Schneiderhohnite, a metallic mineral with thin tabular crystals collected from Tsumeb, Namibia

The Atrium in the Earth Galleries
The Atrium, Earth Galleries, at the Natural History Museum, London

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