Inside London’s Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is the most visited attraction in the UK, and almost nobody looks up.

In this episode I walk through the museum as two things at once: a beloved London landmark, and a working scientific institution with hundreds of researchers behind the galleries. We start in the cathedral-like main hall and work outward, taking in the terracotta animals hidden in the stonework, the Darwin myths that refuse to die, Hope the blue whale, and Dippy the Diplodocus, whose arrival in 1905 kicked off British dinosaur fever.
Along the way we get into Hans Sloane and the British Museum roots, Richard Owen’s ambition to build a temple to nature, and what the museum is planning for its 150th anniversary.

Guests
Alastair Hendry
Tom Luker

Links
Natural History Museum: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/

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