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Natural History MuseumvsScience Museum
Natural History Museum and Science Museum are both endorsed by expert writers. On balance, Natural History Museum scores slightly higher than Science Museum. Natural History Museum comes in at 95 with recommendations from 13 sources including Travel + Leisure, Time Out and Fodor's.
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Natural History Museum Cromwell Rd London SW7 5BD
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Fodor's "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
Concierge "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."
Time Out "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
Let's Go "Beeline for the back of the museum to see the unrepeatable Cadogan Gallery: a collection of British treasures." Full review
Michelin Guide 2 Stars
"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
Afar Magazine "On its own, the architecture of the Natural History Museum is enough of a reason to walk through its doors one afternoon." Full review
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My advice would be to choose two or three exhibits—such as the dinosaur exhibit and the Earth exhibit—so that museum fatigue doesn’t set in.
goop "Built in 1881, the Natural History Museum is also a world-renowned research center and boasts as much historical significance as scientific." Full review
Travel + Leisure "One of three frontages in the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Natural History Museum is one mile in depth and has two façades 1,000 feet long." Full review
Atlas Obscura "Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home. " Full review
Time Out "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
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Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD
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Fodor's "This, one of the three great South Kensington museums, stands next to the Natural History Museum in a far plainer building." Full review
Concierge "Covering all aspects of science, technology, and medicine, the Science Museum is the star of the trio of museums on Exhibition Road (the others are the V&A and the Natural History Museum)."
Time Out "The Science Museum features seven floors of educational and entertaining exhibits, including the Apollo 10 command module and a flight simulator." Full review
Michelin Guide 3 Stars
"This temple to the sciences - 5 floors covering 5ha in all - is remarkable for the richness of its collections, and for the methods it employs to engage visitors." Full review
Travel + Leisure "Families flock to this museum, as do school kids taking part in field trips (380,000 visit as part of a school group each year)." Full review
Condé Nast Traveler "Behind the columns of this stoic 19th-century building are seven floors of mind-bending exhibits, and kids with eyes the size of dinner plates." Full review
Frommer's "The country's pre-eminent museum of science, this is one of the capital's great interactive experiences, filled with buttons to press, levers to pull, and experiments to absorb you." Full review
