Museu de Historia Natural

A vida na Terra e a Terra em si aparecem em detalhes nesse maravilhos museu. Combinando as ultimas tecnicas interativas e mostras tradicionais, as exposiçoes abordam pontos fundamentais, como a origem das especies e a evoluçao dos seres humanos.

O amplo edificio em forma de catedral é uma obra- prima. Inaugurado em 1881, foi projetado por Alfred Waterhouse que usou revolucionarias tecnicas de construçao vitorianas. Foi construido sobre uma estrutura de ferro e aço escondida atras de arcos e colunas , ricamente decoradas com esculturas de plantas e animais.

Visions of Earth

Feel the power of the planet in this dramatic and atmospheric introduction to the Red Zone.

A giant metallic globe presides over Visions of Earth. Visitors can ride up through it to the upper galleries. Surrounding it the towering walls, adorned with a celestial map , put our planet in its heavenly context.

Astronauts from the Apollo 16 mission, which landed on the moon in 1972, brought back this piece of moon rock.

Sulphur, charcoal and saltpetre are responsible for changing the history of warfare, as well giving fireworks their bang – they’re the ingredients of gunpowder.

Alfred Waterhouse took inspiration from these fossil leaf scars when he designed the pillar decorations in the Museum’s Waterhouse building.

A Mastodon skull, with a hole in the centre of its head, may have given rise to the legend of a race of one-eyed giants. That’s why a statue of one such cyclops presides over our specimen.