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 Sout
Front façade of the museum in September 2025
An 1881 plan showing the original arrangement of the museum (link to current floor plans)
The Comic News reporting on the movement to South Kensington in 1863
The central hall of the museum
Richard Owen
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Sir Richard Owen was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossil
Natural History Museum, London
…said this policy was fully approved by the Principal Librarian and his senior colleagues. Many of these faults were corrected by the palaeontologist Richard Owen, appointed Superintendent of the natural history departments of the British Museum in 1856. His changes led Bill Bryson to write that "by making the…
Portrait of Owen, c. 1878
Owen was the driving force behind the establishment, in 1881, of the British Museum (Natural History) in London.
Sheen Lodge, Richmond Park, home of Owen
The young Richard Owen