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Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum in 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 , the others being the Science Museum and the .
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  • Opening hours: 10:00 AM—5:30 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in London, England, UK
  • Also known as: “B.M.(N.H.)”, “BM(NH)”, “BMNH”, “British Museum (Natural History)”, “British Museum of Natural History”, “British Natural History Museum”, “London Natural History Museum”, “Natural History Museum (London)”, “Natural History Museum London”, “Natural History Museum, London”, “NHM London”, “NHMUK”, and “The Natural History Museum”
  • Address: Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD
  • Wheelchair access: limited
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Science Museum and Royal Albert Hall.

Museum
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The is a major museum on Exhibition Road in , London. It was founded in 1857 and is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 3.3 million visitors annually in 2019. is situated 350 feet north of Natural History Museum.

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The is a concert hall on the northern edge of , , England. It has a seating capacity of 5,272. Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage. is situated 1,700 feet north of Natural History Museum.

Convention center
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Queen's Gate House, still commonly known by its previous name of , is a conference centre in , London. It was built as a tribute to Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, and has served as the headquarters for The Scout… is situated 900 feet southwest of Natural History Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Kensington and Brompton.

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is a district at the West End of in the . Historically it settled on part of the scattered village of .

Suburb
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, sometimes called Old , survives in name as a ward in the in London. Until the latter half of the 19th century it was a scattered village made up mostly of in the county of .

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is a residential and retail district in , south of . It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside the .

Natural History Museum

Latitude
51.49646° or 51° 29′ 47″ north
Longitude
-0.17602° or 0° 10′ 34″ west
Elevation
62 feet (19 metres)
Open location code
9C3XFRWF+HH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 24436446
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map attribute
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Geo­Names ID
6697955
Wiki­data ID
Q309388
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Natural History Museum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف التاريخ الطبيعى”
  • Arabic: “متحف التاريخ الطبيعي في لندن”
  • Arabic: “متحف التاريخ الطبيعي”
  • Armenian: “Բնագիտական թանգարան”
  • Asturian: “Muséu d’Historia Natural de Londres”
  • Asturian: “Natural History Museum”
  • Basque: “Historia Naturalaren Museoa”
  • Belarusian: “Лёнданскі прыродазнаўчы музэй”
  • Bengali: “ন্যাচারাল হিস্ট্রি মিউজিয়াম, লন্ডন”
  • Bengali: “প্রাকৃতিক ইতিহাস জাদুঘর”
  • Catalan: “Museu d’Història Natural de Londres”
  • Catalan: “Museu d’Història Natural”
  • Catalan: “Museu dHistòria Natural de Londres”
  • Catalan: “Natural History Museum”
  • Chinese: “伦敦自然历史博物馆”
  • Chinese: “自然史博物館”
  • Chinese: “自然史博物馆”
  • Chinese: “英国自然历史博物馆”
  • Chinese: “英国自然史博物馆”
  • Croatian: “Natural History Museum”
  • Croatian: “Prirodoslovni muzej u Londonu”
  • Czech: “Natural History Museum”
  • Czech: “Přírodopisné muzeum Londýn”
  • Czech: “Přírodopisné muzeum v Londýně”
  • Czech: “Přírodopisné muzeum”
  • Danish: “Natural History Museum”
  • Dutch: “BMNH”
  • Dutch: “British Museum of Natural History”
  • Dutch: “British Museum”
  • Dutch: “Natural History Museum”
  • Dutch: “​​Natural History Museum”
  • Dutch: “The Natural History Museum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف التاريخ الطبيعى فى لندن”
  • Esperanto: “Brita Muzeo de Natura Historio”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo pri natura historio de Londono”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo pri Natura Historio de Londono”
  • Esperanto: “Natural History Museum”
  • Estonian: “Londoni loodusmuuseum”
  • Finnish: “Lontoon luonnonhistoriallinen museo”
  • Finnish: “Natural History Museum”
  • French: “musée d’histoire naturelle de Londres”
  • French: “Musée d’histoire naturelle de Londres”
  • French: “Musée d’histoire naturelle”
  • French: “Musée dhistoire naturelle de Londres”
  • French: “Museum d’histoire naturelle de Londres”
  • French: “Muséum D’histoire Naturelle De Londres”
  • French: “Natural History Museum de Londres”
  • French: “Natural history museum. Londres”
  • French: “Natural History Museum”
  • Galician: “Museo de Historia Natural de Londres”
  • Georgian: “ბუნების ისტორიის მუზეუმი, ლონდონი”
  • Georgian: “ბუნებისმეტყველების მუზეუმი”
  • Georgian: “ლონდონის ბუნებისმეტყველების მუზეუმი”
  • German: “Britisches Museum für Naturgeschichte”
  • German: “British Museum of Natural History”
  • German: “Darwin Centre”
  • German: “Natural History Museum”
  • German: “Naturhistorisches Museum”
  • Greek: “Μουσείο Φυσικής Ιστορίας Λονδίνου”
  • Greek: “Μουσείο Φυσικής Ιστορίας”
  • Gujarati: “નૈસર્ગિક ઇતિહાસ સંગ્રહાલય”
  • Hebrew: “המוזיאון להיסטוריה של הטבע”
  • Hindi: “नेचुरल हिस्ट्री म्यूजियम”
  • Hungarian: “Londoni Természettudományi Múzeum”
  • Hungarian: “Natural History Museum”
  • Icelandic: “Náttúrufræðasafnið í London”
  • Icelandic: “Náttúrugripasafnið í London”
  • Icelandic: “Natural History Museum”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Sejarah Alam, London”
  • Indonesian: “Natural History Museum”
  • Irish: “Músaem Stair an Dúlra”
  • Italian: “Museo di storia naturale di Londra”
  • Italian: “Museo di storia naturale”
  • Japanese: “ロンドン自然史博物館”
  • Japanese: “大英自然史博物館”
  • Japanese: “自然史博物館”
  • Japanese: “英国自然史博物館”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯಾಚುರಲ್ ಹಿಸ್ಟರಿ ಮ್ಯೂಸಿಯಂ”
  • Korean: “런던 자연사 박물관”
  • Korean: “런던 자연사박물관”
  • Korean: “런던자연사박물관”
  • Korean: “자연사 박물관”
  • Latin: “Museum Historiae Naturalis”
  • Latvian: “Londonas Dabas vēstures muzejs”
  • Lithuanian: “Gamtos istorijos muziejus”
  • Lithuanian: “Londono gamtos istorijos muziejus”
  • Macedonian: “Природонаучен музеј”
  • Malayalam: “നാച്ചുറൽ ഹിസ്റ്ററി മ്യൂസിയം, ലണ്ടൻ”
  • Malayalam: “നാച്ചുറൽ ഹിസ്റ്ററി മ്യൂസിയം”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Natural History Museum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Naturhistorisk museum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “British Museum of Natural History”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Natural History Museum”
  • Norwegian: “Natural History Museum”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Musèu d’Istòria Naturala de Londres”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Natural History Museum”
  • Persian: “موزه تاریخ طبیعی لندن”
  • Polish: “Brytyjskie Muzeum Historii Naturalnej”
  • Polish: “Muzeum Historii Naturalnej w Londynie”
  • Polish: “Muzeum Historii Naturalnej”
  • Portuguese: “Museu de História Natural de Londres”
  • Portuguese: “Museu de História Natural”
  • Portuguese: “Natural History Museum”
  • Romanian: “Muzeul de Istorie Naturală din Londra”
  • Romanian: “Muzeul de Istorie Naturală”
  • Romanian: “Natural History Museum”
  • Russian: “Музей естественной истории”
  • Russian: “Музей естествознания”
  • Serbian: “Природњачки музеј у Лондону”
  • Serbian: “Природњачки музеј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Natural History Museum”
  • Slovak: “Natural History Museum”
  • Slovak: “Prírodopisné múzeum”
  • Slovenian: “BMNH”
  • Slovenian: “britanski naravoslovni muzej”
  • Slovenian: “britanski prirodoslovni muzej”
  • Slovenian: “londonski naravoslovni muzej”
  • Slovenian: “londonski prirodoslovni muzej”
  • Slovenian: “Naravoslovni muzej v Londonu”
  • Slovenian: “NHM London”
  • Slovenian: “Prirodoslovni muzej v Londonu”
  • Slovenian: “Prirodoslovni muzej, London”
  • Slovenian: “Prirodoslovni muzej”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Historia Natural de Londres”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Historia Natural”
  • Spanish: “Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Londres”
  • Swedish: “British Museum of Natural History”
  • Swedish: “Museum of Natural History”
  • Swedish: “Natural History Museum”
  • Tamil: “இயற்கை வரலாற்று அருங்காட்சியகம், இலண்டன்”
  • Tamil: “இயற்கை வரலாற்று அருங்காட்சியகம்”
  • Turkish: “Doğa Tarihi Müzesi”
  • Turkish: “Londra Doğal Tarih Müzesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Музей природознавства в Лондоні”
  • Ukrainian: “Музей природознавства”
  • Urdu: “نیچرل ہسٹری میوزیم، لندن”
  • Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng Lịch sử Tự nhiên Luân Đôn”
  • Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng Lịch sử Tự nhiên”
  • Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng Lịch Sử Tự Nhiên”
  • Welsh: “Amgueddfa Hanes Natur Llundain”
  • Welsh: “Amgueddfa Hanes Naturiol Llundain”
  • Yue Chinese: “自然史博物館”
  • “BMNH”

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