Natural History Museum
About Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum in London, England, is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Natural History Museum's main frontage, however, is on Cromwell Road.
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In 1973 there was this guy called Dr. Peter Whitehead who was working in the Natural History Museum and he was a biologist and he was just obsessed with finding this picture of this herring.
from No Such Thing As A Non-Judgemental Herring, 2019-06-07 at 00:08:13 · read transcript
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How that was named after him though uh well it was called Diplodocus Carnegie the first specimen yeah the scientific name it was given yeah yeah and uh he invested a lot of money I think he gave Dippy the Diplodocus to the Natural History Museum the plaster cast it was him who presented it yeah yeah and he he was very instrumental in spreading the amazing news about this dinosaur around the world he was fascinated by them yeah that's it just speaking of.
97: No Such Thing As Andrew Diplodocus Carnegie, 2016-01-22 · listen
We can all contribute to the fight against climate change. There's another spodiumene, which hiddenizes a spodium. There's another one which kind of caught my eye called Kuntz, which was named after George Frederick Kuntz, who was the chief jeweler of Tiffany and co. And he went around the world collecting minerals, and his collection was the beginning of the US Natural History Museum. Stone Collection. That was it?
No Such Thing As A Ping Pong Ballbag, 2021-06-25 · listen
The guy who runs a museum said he stirred up my curatorial staff and he also stirred me up a bit but I also had a laugh because it was really humoristic but then he did say that he needs to pay the money back. I really like incidents of museums, you're just making flubs and blunders and accidentally ruining exhibits and things like that. The National History Museum, they released a list of their incidents in 2009. One of them, slightly shortly before that, was there were these things called conodonts which are their extinct eel-like creatures, okay?
395: No Such Thing As A Kryptonite Drill, 2021-10-15 · listen
They have a few people who go in. There's a brilliant interview with James McLean, who I think Dan definitely knows, I would say. I'm not sure if you guys know him, who's the fish curator at the Natural History Museum. It's been his job during lockdown for some of the time to go and have a look around and make sure that everything's okay. He's had to look after the flesh-eating beetles, for instance.
No Such Thing As Tug of War for Clowns, 2020-11-27 · listen
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