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Expand 1 - Departments and Buildings1 - Departments and Buildings
Expand 2 - Staff Portraits and Group Photographs2 - Staff Portraits and Group Photographs
Collapse 3 - Permanent Galleries and Exhibitions3 - Permanent Galleries and Exhibitions
Expand 1 - Galleries and Exhibitions: Gallery Photograph Albums 1, 2 and 31 - Galleries and Exhibitions: Gallery Photograph Albums 1, 2 and 3
Collapse 2 - Galleries and building: Photograph Albums and named collections2 - Galleries and building: Photograph Albums and named collections
Expand 1 - Photograph Album: 'Twelve photographs of the Natural History Museum' by Henry Dixon1 - Photograph Album: 'Twelve photographs of the Natural History Museum' by Henry Dixon
Expand 2 - Photograph Collection: A set of photographic views of the Museum2 - Photograph Collection: A set of photographic views of the Museum
Expand 3 - Photograph Album: Gallery photographs by J Benjamin Stone 3 - Photograph Album: Gallery photographs by J Benjamin Stone
Expand 4 - Photograph Album: Collection of gallery views by W H Smith 4 - Photograph Album: Collection of gallery views by W H Smith
Expand 5 - Photograph Collection: Photographs Published in the 'Illustrated Guide to the Exhibition Galleries'5 - Photograph Collection: Photographs Published in the 'Illustrated Guide to the Exhibition Galleries'
Expand 6 - Photograph Album: The Museum at Night6 - Photograph Album: The Museum at Night
Expand 7 - Photograph Collection: Gallery photographs taken from glass negatives7 - Photograph Collection: Gallery photographs taken from glass negatives
Collapse 8 - General Gallery Photographs8 - General Gallery Photographs
1 - Bird Gallery case under construction
2 - Mineral Gallery, general view
3 - Mineral Gallery, general view
4 - Mineral Gallery, general view
5 - Bird Gallery case under construction
6 - Bird Gallery case under construction
7 - Central Hall, exhibits in Bay 1, introduction to chordates and fish
8 - Central Hall, exhibits in Bay 1, introduction to chordates and fish
9 - Central Hall, exhibits in Bay 1, introduction to fish
10 - Central Hall, exhibits in Bay 1, introduction to fish
11 - Central Hall, exhibits in Bay 1, introduction to fish
12 - Central Hall, exhibits in Bay 1, introduction to fish
13 - Central Hall, exhibits in Bay 3, general view
14 - Central Hall, exhibits in Bay 3, Tyson's pygmie and elephant seal, temporary exhibits from 1946
15 - Central Hall, exhibits in Bay 3, ground nuts, a temporary exhibit of 1948
16 - Central Hall, exhibits in Bay 3, Mesolithic Britain
17 - Central Hall, exhibits in Bay 3, Mesolithic Britain
18 - Central Hall, exhibits in Bay 3, Mesolithic Britain
19 - Bird Gallery, cliff diorama
20 - Diorama of pilot whales in Whale Hall
21 - Fish Gallery, looking north
22 - Dinosaur Gallery, looking north
23 - Reptile Gallery, case detail
24 - Bird Gallery, mock-up of Birds of Paradise case
25 - Bird Gallery, colour inheritance in budgerigars
26 - Bird Gallery, how birds fly
27 - Bird Gallery, the conquest of the air case
28 - Bird Gallery, ducks and geese case
29 - Bird Gallery, herons and storks case
30 - Bird Gallery, duck diorama
31 - Bird Gallery, eagle diorama
32 - Bird Gallery, buzzard diorama
33 - Bird Gallery, sea shore case
34 - Bird Gallery, marsh and fen case
35 - Bird Gallery, mountain case
36 - Bird Gallery, rare visitors case
37 - Bird Gallery, rare visitors case
38 - Bird Gallery, sea cliffs and rocky coasts diorama
39 - Bird Gallery, farmyard diorama
40 - Bird Gallery, seashore case
41 - Bird Gallery, seashore case
42 - Central Hall, human evolution case
43 - Mineral Gallery, space group exhibit
44 - Mineral Gallery, space group exhibit
45 - Coral Gallery, general view
46 - Coral Gallery, general view
47 - Fox group diorama on Mammal Balcony
48 - Elephants in Central Hall
49 - Elephants in Central Hall
50 - Central Hall looking north
51 - North Hall, limbs of mammals exhibit
52 - Bird Gallery, mechanism of inheritance case
53 - Bird Gallery, mechanism of inheritance case
54 - Central Hall, Viruses and Virus Diseases case
55 - North Hall, Houseflies and disease case
56 - North Hall, naming and control of insects case
57 - Rowland Ward Pavilion, site of
58 - Central Hall, Viruses and Virus Diseases case
59 - Central Hall, Viruses and Virus Diseases case
60 - Rowland Ward Pavilion under construction
61 - Rowland Ward Pavilion under construction
62 - Rowland Ward Pavilion under construction
63 - Rowland Ward Pavilion under construction
64 - Central Hall: construction of pachyderm stand
65 - Central Hall: construction of pachyderm stand
66 - Central Hall: construction of pachyderm stand
67 - Bird Gallery, Cornish chough
68 - Bird Gallery, gannet diorama
69 - Bird Gallery, hornbills
70 - Bird Gallery, hornbills
71 - Mammals balcony, east side, under construction
72 - Mammal balcony, external form display
73 - Mammal balcony, external form display
74 - Central Hall, Mammal morphology, axial skeleton case
75 - Central Hall, Mammal morphology, limbs of mammals
76 - Central Hall, Evolution of Man, Neolithic case
77 - Central Hall, Evolution, variation case
78 - Central Hall, Evolution, genetic variation case
79 - Central Hall, Evolution, genetics case
80 - Central Hall, Evolution, adaptation case
81 - Central Hall, Evolution, adaptation case
82 - Central Hall, Evolution, polymorphism case
83 - Central Hall, Evolution, natural selection diorama
84 - Central Hall, Evolution, sexual selection
85 - Central Hall, Evolution, continuity of life
86 - Central Hall, Evolution, lines of evolution
87 - Central Hall, Evolution, geological succession
88 - Central Hall, Evolution, constancy of plan
89 - Central Hall, Evolution, geographical variation
90 - Central Hall, Evolution, isolation
91 - Central Hall, Evolution, bay three, selection
92 - Bird Gallery, perching birds
93 - Bird Gallery, turacos and cuckoos
94 - Bird Gallery, jacanas, waders and plovers
95 - Bird Gallery, birds of paradise and bower birds
96 - Bird Gallery, nectar eaters and warblers
97 - Bird Gallery, owls
98 - Bird Gallery, hornbills, toucans, wood-peckers etc
99 - Botany Gallery, general view
100 - Botany Gallery, view of entrance
101 - Fossil mammal gallery, general view
102 - Fossil mammal gallery, general view
103 - Rowland Ward Pavilion, sable antelope diorama
104 - Rowland Ward Pavilion, giraffe diorama
105 - Elephant group in Central Hall, from above
106 - Central Hall, origin of sex display
107 - Central Hall, west side: The origin of life
108 - Central Hall, west side: Colonization of the land
109 - Central Hall, west side: Origin of multicellular organisms
110 - Central Hall, general view looking south
111 - Reptile Gallery, Tuatara case
112 - Upper gallery, Natural History Museum at Tring (previously known as the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum)
113 - Bookstall, Natural History Museum at Tring (previously known as the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum)
114 - Bookstall, Natural History Museum at Tring (previously known as the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum)
115 - Bookstall, Natural History Museum at Tring (previously known as the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum)
116 - Fossil Mammal Gallery, historical case
117 - Fossil Mammal Gallery, North America case
118 - Fossil Mammal Gallery, Glyptodon
119 - Fossil Mammal Gallery, rhinoceros in bitumen
120 - Fossil Mammal Gallery, giant Irish deer
121 - Fossil Mammal Gallery, unidentified skeleton
122 - Fossil Mammal Gallery, Toxodon
123 - Fossil Mammal Gallery, British Pleistocene case
124 - Central Hall: construction of pachyderm stand
125 - Central Hall: construction of pachyderm stand
126 - Central Hall: construction of pachyderm stand
127 - Central Hall: construction of pachyderm stand
128 - Central Hall: construction of pachyderm stand
129 - Central Hall: construction of pachyderm stand
130 - Central Hall: construction of pachyderm stand
131 - Central Hall: construction of pachyderm stand
132 - Central Hall: construction of pachyderm stand
133 - 'Gilbert White of Selborne', temporary display, North Hall
134 - 'Gilbert White of Selborne', temporary display, North Hall
135 - Enquiry corner in Mineral Gallery
136 - Fossil tree trunk in Museum grounds
137 - Central Hall looking north
138 - Central Hall looking north
139 - Building: Photosurvey of west end of east gallery, ground floor
140 - Building: Photosurvey of west end of east gallery, ground floor
141 - Building: Photosurvey of west end of east gallery, ground floor
142 - Photosurvey of west end of east gallery, ground floor
143 - Building: Photosurvey of west end of east gallery, ground floor
144 - Giant squid model on display in Mollusca Gallery
145 - Coral Gallery
146 - Bird Gallery looking east
147 - Bird Gallery looking south east
148 - Diorama of three pachyderms
149 - Fossil Mammal Gallery, Smilodon californicus
150 - Fossil Mammal Gallery, Giant Sloth
151 - Fossil Galleries entrance, pliosaur sign
152 - Fossil Galleries entrance, Giant pliosaur (temporary exhibit)
153 - Fossil Galleries entrance, Giant pliosaur (temporary exhibit)
154 - Fossil Galleries entrance, Giant pliosaur (temporary exhibit), general view
155 - Fossil Galleries entrance, Giant pliosaur (temporary exhibit), signange
156 - Central Hall, 'Enterprise Neptune exhibit
157 - Central Hall, 'Enterprise Neptune exhibit
158 - Rowland Ward Pavilion, giraffe diorama
159 - Rowland Ward Pavilion, giraffe diorama
160 - Rowland Ward Pavilion, map of Africa
161 - Rowland Ward Pavilion, giraffe diorama
162 - Rowland Ward Pavilion, giraffe diorama
163 - Rowland Ward Pavilion, giraffe diorama
164 - Rowland Ward Pavilion, animal diorama featuring [?] deer and vegetation
165 - Rowland Ward Pavilion, animal diorama featuring [?] deer
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Expand 11 - Photographs of the interior of the Waterhouse building11 - Photographs of the interior of the Waterhouse building
Expand 12 - Photograhs of fossil specimens being cleaned for the reopening of the Museum12 - Photograhs of fossil specimens being cleaned for the reopening of the Museum
Expand 13 - Photographs of a display on Dentition13 - Photographs of a display on Dentition
Expand 14 - Photographs of Museum Visitors and exhibits14 - Photographs of Museum Visitors and exhibits
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Expand 13 - Fossil Mammal Gallery13 - Fossil Mammal Gallery
Expand 14 - Fossil Reptile Gallery14 - Fossil Reptile Gallery
Expand 15 - Fossil Vertebrate Gallery15 - Fossil Vertebrate Gallery
Expand 16 - Hall of Human Biology16 - Hall of Human Biology
Expand 17 - Insect Gallery17 - Insect Gallery
Expand 18 - Introducing Ecology Gallery18 - Introducing Ecology Gallery
Expand 19 - Mammal Balcony19 - Mammal Balcony
Expand 20 - Mammal Gallery20 - Mammal Gallery
Expand 21 - Man's Place in Evolution Gallery21 - Man's Place in Evolution Gallery
Expand 22 - Marine Invertebrate Gallery22 - Marine Invertebrate Gallery
Expand 23 - Meteorite Pavilion23 - Meteorite Pavilion
Expand 24 - Mineral Gallery24 - Mineral Gallery
Expand 25 - North Hall25 - North Hall
Expand 26 - Origin of Species Exhibition26 - Origin of Species Exhibition
Expand 27 - Reptile Gallery27 - Reptile Gallery
Expand 28 - Spencer Gallery28 - Spencer Gallery
Expand 29 - Time and Life Gallery29 - Time and Life Gallery
Expand 30 - Whale Hall (Old and New)30 - Whale Hall (Old and New)
Expand 31 - Wildlife Garden31 - Wildlife Garden
Expand 32 - Succession of Life Gallery32 - Succession of Life Gallery
Expand 34 - Ecology Gallery34 - Ecology Gallery
35 - Creepy Crawlies Gallery
Expand 36 - Fossils from Britain Gallery36 - Fossils from Britain Gallery
Expand 37 - Lasting Impressions Gallery37 - Lasting Impressions Gallery
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Expand 6 - Statues, Plaques and Portrait Paintings6 - Statues, Plaques and Portrait Paintings
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