It is housed in a fantastic building which I think was purpose built a bit over 130 years ago to house the collections, now some 70 million specimens. We haven't seen them yet but they hold collections from the great Sloane, Wallace and Darwin.
The information on each specimen is good but I would like more detail, then again too much might be overwhelming for the average audience, school children, many of whom rush about madly with excitement taking photos on their mobile phone cameras.
Ok, a couple of photos then off to do more exploring.
A living fossil
Whale skeleton showing baleen plates
The inscription reads
" Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science.
Charles Robert Darwin (1809 - 1882)"
Awesome spiral staircase in the underground metro station
Random train photo of the route
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