Discover how whales were at the heart of Richard Owen's original proposal for a museum of natural history in Britain. The founding of the Natural History Museum in London can be traced ... Staff stand ...

A trip to the Natural History Museum is the perfect day out in London ... You're in for the biggest welcome in London. Look up at the skeleton of the blue whale - the largest animal on Earth. This ...

The Museum's vast blue whale skeleton is more than just a specimen - it's a 4.5-tonne parcel of social history. The animal has been dead ... and his closest surviving relative. She visited London with ...

conservators and other Museum staff. It took more than three years to prepare the blue whale for display in Hintze Hall. In that time, our experts unearthed dozens of stories about its history. The ...

For the blue whale skeleton, visit Hintze Hall. Discover one of the more unusual colourful specimens at the Museum: a colour-changing marvel that transformed with the seasons.

Discover what you can see and do in our free galleries, and where you can eat, drink and shop across the Museum. Whether you ... Look down on Hope the blue whale, discover more about the practice of ...

Rotate and zoom in to the model below to learn more about the specimen. Blue whale skeleton by NHM_Imaging on Sketchfab This 3D model of the Museum's blue whale skeleton was produced by our Imaging ...

Trace the 126-year journey of the blue whale from the sea to Museum. A blue whale skeleton weighing 4.5 tonnes ... the stranding represents an important moment in the history of this species.

Krill make up the vast majority of a blue whale's diet. The blue whale is a filter-feeder. Its throat has an expandable, pleated structure to engulf a volume of water and prey that is greater than the ...

Whale earwax and parasitic worms are going on display at the Natural History Museum in a new exhibition ... permanent gallery to open at the famous London museum since 2016.