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The British Natural History Museum ( The Natural History Museum is a natural history museum in the European group, with about 40 million specimens of plants and animals and rocks and minerals from all over the world, including more than 7 million paleontological fossil specimens, 500,000 kinds of books and journals in the library, and a large number of early natural research manuscripts and drawings and other valuable items.

The British Museum of Natural History is also a world class The museum is also a world-class tourist attraction and a leading research center with a unique collection and unparalleled professional level specimen solutions; located in South Kensington, southwest of central London, next to Hyde Park. The museum has a total building area of more than 40,000 square meters and houses approximately 70 million specimens from around the world, including 28 million insect specimens.

The museum has 20 large exhibition halls, including six aspects of paleontology, minerals, plants, animals, ecology and humans. The central hall is the modern life science exhibition hall, with the use of the landscape, exhibition cabinets to introduce evolution and anthropological knowledge. 1 floor right wing exhibition hall display paleontological fossil specimens, it exhibits ichthyosaur, snake neck dragon, 5 meters tall tyrannosaurus rex, extremely small body of the new jaws, tail up to 17 meters pterosaur and complete skeleton of the first bird; left wing exhibition hall display modern animals, including marine non-cervical vertebrates, fish, birds and reptiles. The left side of the 2nd floor exhibits mammals, among which the more outstanding are the African tropical grassland animals and the Australian marsupials; the right side exhibits minerals, rocks, gems, marbles and a special room for meteorites.

The British Museum of Natural History had a staff of 750 in 1978, including 300 scientists of all kinds working in five research departments: zoology, entomology, paleontology, mineralogy, and botany. In addition to indoor research in their own disciplines, scientists also organize and participate in field research activities. The museum is one of the international taxonomic centers for the study of plants, animals and minerals and is used by scholars from all over the world. It identifies and names plants, animals, and minerals, studies theories of affinities between species and biological evolution, and works on practical problems in medicine, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, mining, and oil exploration.


British Museum of Natural History official website
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