Natural History Museum

"The ornate terracotta facade of this enormous Victorian museum is strewn with relief panels depicting living creatures to the left of the entrance and extinct ones to the right." Full review

"This is just one of the three huge galleries (all free) off Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the V&A."

"Both a research institution and a fabulous museum, the NHM opened in Alfred Waterhouse’s purpose-built Romanesque palazzo on the Cromwell Road in 1881." Full review

"Beeline for the back of the museum to see the unrepeatable Cadogan Gallery: a collection of British treasures." Full review

"Built by Alfred Waterhouse between 1873 and 1880 to a symmetrical plan, the building is 205m long with two 58m-high central towers above an entrance embellished by arches." Full review

"On its own, the architecture of the Natural History Museum is enough of a reason to walk through its doors one afternoon." Full review

"Built in 1881, the Natural History Museum is also a world-renowned research center and boasts as much historical significance as scientific." Full review

"Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home. " Full review

"The renowned and celebrated annual wildlife photography competition exhibition returns to the Natural History Museum with images of the most extraordinary species on the planet." Full review

"If you’re missing ‘Blue Planet’, this exhibition offers another chance to see what goes on in the depths of the oceans." Full review