Natural Histrory Museum

The Natural History Museum is one of the biggest museums on Exhibition Road. We can discover all its richness in differents galleries. Indeed, there are more to 70 million items which are distributed in five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Paleontology and Zoology.

The « Dronte of Maurice », more famous with the name of DODO is one specie of endemic big Bird of Maurice Island. Related to pigeons, this Dronte lived in forests or plains. It was about one meter for an average mass of 10,2 kg. We can see one skeleton of its in the Natural Museum.

We can discover the United Kingdom flag, near to the skeleton dodo, which have for importance to have been in the space. It’s a symbol of the power to the country. In order to prove that this flag have been in space, astronauts took a fragment of a rock which was on the moon. It was during the apollo 17 mission.

Furthermore, in the mineral stones gallery, we can see a meteoric iron. A meteoric is a natural solid extraterrestrial origin which crossed the atmosphere and haven’t lose all its mass that reachs the Earth’s surface.

The Blue Whale is the bigest animal which live on earth in our time.It can exceed 30 meters in length and 170 tons. We can learn it in animal gallery.

The dinosaur’s gallery is the best gallery for me. We can look differents species skeleton with, of course, the famous T-Rex dinosaur. It was one of the biggest carnivorous of the Jurassic era.

In this gallery, we can learn too, that some species of our era are the descendant of some species to the Jurassic era like elephants, antelopes and ducks for example.

So the Natural History Museum is a place with beautiful items with amazing stories.

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