The Natural History Museum in London is the world's most prestigious and pre-eminent museum of natural history, exhibiting a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum
.The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology. The museum is a world-renowned centre of research specialising in taxonomy,
identification and conservation. Given the age of the institution, many
of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value,
such as specimens collected by Charles Darwin. 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 Natural History
Museum Library contains extensive books, journals, manuscripts, and
artwork collections linked to the work and research of the scientific
departments; access to the library is by appointment only. The museum is
recognised as the pre-eminent centre of natural history and research of
related fields in the world.
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