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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The Natural History Museum keeps flesh-eating beetles that strip down bones: you put a new animal in, the beetles eat all the meat off it, and you come out with a perfect skeleton.
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In the Natural History Museum there is a series of pipes running through the whole building that fire alcohol around it, with little taps in every room giving pure ethanol for preservation.
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The Natural History Museum is stopping moths from destroying its exhibits by turning them gay.
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There are 8,712,000 dead butterflies and moths in the Natural History Museum, and if the glass-fronted cases were laid out on the floor they would cover around 30 football pitches.
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The Natural History Museum's butterfly and moth collection began with Walter and Charles Rothschild.
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It was said of the museum's collection of more than two million butterflies that there was not a single duplicate in the entire collection.
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The blue whale skeleton hung in the Natural History Museum is posed in the lunging position, which is how blue whales feed.
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They found a new species of bug in the Natural History Museum's garden.
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