The Natural
History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition
Road, South Kensington, London, England. Its main frontage is
on Cromwell Road. The museum is an exempt charity, and
a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for
Culture, Media and Sport. Although commonly referred to as the
Natural History Museum, it was officially known as British Museum (Natural
History) until 1992, despite legal separation from the British Museum in
1963.
The
museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 70 million
items within five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The museum is a world-renowned centre of
research, specializing in taxonomy, identification and conservation.
The
museum is particularly famous for its exhibition
of dinosaur skeletons, and ornate architecture — sometimes dubbed
a cathedral of nature — both exemplified by the
large Diplodocus cast which dominates the vaulted central hall. The
museum plays an important role in the London-based Disney live-action
feature One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing; the eponymous skeleton is stolen
from the museum, and a group of intrepid nannies hide inside the
mouth of what is supposed to be the Blue Whale model (in fact a specially
created prop - the nannies peer out from behind the whale's teeth, but a real Blue
Whale is a baleen whale and has no teeth).
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