Natural History Museum, London
South Kensington, SW7
Tube: South Kensington
London
England
Tel: 44 207 942 5000
www.nhm.ac.uk
Concierge.com's insider take:
This is just one of the three huge galleries off Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the V&A. With its Victorian architecture and huge dinosaur skeleton in the central hall—known affectionately as Dippy the Diplodocus—this is exactly what you'd expect a natural history museum to look like. Be careful not to trip over the tiny children who stare up wide-eyed and open-mouthed at Dippy as they enter. You'll find spouting volcanoes, quaking fault lines, and a massive model of the world in the Earth Galleries, or take a closer look inside your own brain and step back into the womb with a giant baby model in the Life Galleries. It's debatable whether 2005 addition Archie, an 28.3-foot giant squid discovered near the Falkland Islands and now preserved in a huge tank, will ever become as famous as Dippy, but he's worth a look, too.
Free admission.
