Natural History Museum

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Visitors can tell the British Natural History Museum is a unique museum from the second they enter. It was one of a trio of great Victorian museums created at the end of the 19th century, and boasts 70 million items within five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. It has been beautifully updated for modern day educational needs, and has information bursting from every corner.

Hallways are lined with interactive light-up pictures that will delight every child. The Museum also has plenty of gallery activities that get children interested and entertained in the natural wonders of the world. The galleries are split into colour zones which coordinate with some aspect of the exhibit (i.e.: the green zone talks about the earth’s ecology).

For those a little older, exhibits of nature's most rare, unique and valuable treasures are in a new permanent gallery. Diamonds, gold and gems glitter from The Vault at the end of the room. Visiting areas with life-sized creations of some of the largest creatures on the planet are sure to awe people of all ages. Some of the changing exhibits charge for admission, but the museum is free to enter. This huge museum needs at least two days to fully explore, but if done quickly, visitors can also pop in to the Science Museum connected in the back.

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4 / 5 Review by contributing editor Melissa Rubin