Museums in London

 After visiting the Eden Project, while returning from St. Austell, Cornwall to Brighton, I thought of visiting Museums in London. I visited three Museums viz. The Natural History Museum, the Science Museum and the British Museum. I could not visit the Victoria Albert Museum even though it was very close to the Natural History Museum. All these museums are very close to the London underground railway stations. I travelled from St. Austell to Paddington by express train and Paddington to South Kensington by underground circle (yellow line). Around the South Kensington railway station there are three museums - Natural History Museum, Science Museum and Victoria Albert Museum. After visiting the first two museums I left for Tottenham Court Road railway station from South Kensington station to see the British Museum.

From the Tottenham Court Road, I returned to Brighton via London Victoria. Since the train services in UK are excellent it was possible for me to visit three museums in a very short time. All museums in London are very big and each of them require at least half a day to visit.   

Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum has more than 70 million specimens and these are arranged on specific themes in four galleries/ zone- Orange, Blue, Green and Red.

Blue zone: This is zone depicts the age of Dinosaurs, human biology, Fishes, amphibians and reptiles. Images of nature, marine invertebrates, mammals.

Green zone: Giant sequoia, Primates, birds, creepy crawlies, ecology, fossil Marine reptiles, minerals, evolution Fossils are arranged.

Red zone: Earth today and tomorrow, Earth’s treasury, Earth and natural forces/ disasters shape the planet. We can experience the earthquake and impact of volcanic eruptions.



Please visit my next blog to see the pictures of Science Museum and British Museum.