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Natural History Museum
museum in London, England, UK
Details
- Instance of
- natural history museum, national museum, herbarium, non-departmental public body, organization
- Inception
- 1881
- Has parts
- Natural History Museum Library and Archives, British Museum (Natural History) Department of Botany
- Location
- South Kensington
- Located in
- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Founded by
- Richard Owen
- Chaired by
- Keith O'Nions, Oliver Stocken, Stephen Green, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint, Patrick Vallance
- architect
- Alfred Waterhouse
- architectural style
- Romanesque Revival architecture
- category for the exterior of the item
- Category:Exterior of the Natural History Museum, London
- category for the interior of the item
- Category:Interior of the Natural History Museum, London
- collection or exhibition size
- 80000000
- Commons Institution page
- Natural History Museum, London
- date of official opening
- 1881
- described by source
- Open GLAM Survey, Anglické listy
- director / manager
- Doug Gurr, Michael Dixon, Neil Chalmers, Ronald Henderson Hedley, Gordon Frank Claringbull, Terence Morrison-Scott, Gavin de Beer, Norman Boyd Kinnear, Clive Forster Cooper, Charles Tate Regan, Sidney Frederic Harmer, Lazarus Fletcher
- has facility
- accessible toilet
- heritage designation
- Grade I listed building
- historic county
- Middlesex
- IPv4 routing prefix
- 157.140.0.0/16
- IPv6 routing prefix
- 2001:630:101::/48
- located on street
- Exhibition Road, Cromwell Road
- official name
- Natural History Museum
- open days
- all days of the week
- OS grid reference
- TQ2668278986
- phone number
- +44-20-7942-5000
- position held by head of the organization
- Superintendent of the Natural History Departments, director of the Natural History Museum
- postal code
- SW7 5BD
- significant person
- Hans Sloane, Carl Linnaeus
- social media followers
- 2342984, 153000, 2320275, 167000, 2298062, 178000, 192000, 214000
- street address
- Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD
- topic's main category
- Category:Natural History Museum, London
- total revenue
- 18288000, 27449000, 64343000, 39720000, 16271000, 459000, 45007000, 13408000, 63513000, 3374000, 30622000, 52383000
- visitors per year
- 4105106, 4434520, 5284023, 5226320, 3250376, 3080401, 3754496, 3600119, 3698500, 4647613, 4873275, 5021762
Works in this collection (1)
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Botany
- Catalogue of monkeys, lemurs, and fruit-eating bats in the collection of the British museum
- Fossil Mammals of Africa
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology
- A general guide to the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W. : with plans and a view of the building
- Catalogue of the recent Echinida ... in the ... Museum
- Report on the collections of natural history made in the Antarctic regions during the voyage of the "Southern Cross."
- Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology. Supplement
- Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum
- A guide to the exhibition galleries ... Departments of Geology and Palaeontology, Mineralogy, and Botany
- Catalogue of the Reigen collection of Mazatlan Mollusca in the British Museum