Natural History Museum London
Overview
A cathedral to life on earth in Alfred Waterhouse's terracotta palace in South Kensington. Its 80 million specimens include specimens collected by Darwin, the blue whale skeleton in Hintze Hall, and the dinosaur and mammal galleries. Richard Owen, who coined the word dinosaur, was its first superintendent.
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