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Museum · South Kensington, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England

Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is the national museum of life and earth sciences on Cromwell Road in South Kensington, London.

Why go

The Natural History Museum on Cromwell Road in South Kensington holds some 70 million life and earth science specimens in five main collections, botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology, and is a centre of research as well as a museum, according to the UK government's page on it. The museum's visit page says its galleries are free to explore, and that visitors who want guaranteed entry can book a free entry ticket, become a member or hold a ticket for an exhibition or event. The same page says bags may be searched on arrival. The museum also runs a separate site at Tring in Hertfordshire; this record is the South Kensington museum only.