The Wonders of London's Natural History Museum - An In-Depth Guided Tour
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In this video, Jessica the Museum Guide (that’s me!) takes you on a detailed guided tour of London’s iconic Natural History Museum.
We’ll explore the history of the museum and explore the massive Hintze Hall, including Hope the Blue Whale and the statue of Charles Darwin. Next, we’ll tour the epic Dinosaur Collection and say hello to Dippy, followed by the treasures of the Cadogan Gallery.
We break into The Vault to see some wondrous geology and admire the taxidermy of the Mammals collection. After bidding farewell to the mammals, we take a peek at the Spirit Collection, followed by some highlights of Human Evolution. We finish the tour in the Earthquake Simulator where things really get shakin’ (groan).
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0:00 - Introduction to the tour
00:11 - The History of the Natural History Museum
2:58 - Entering the Museum - Hintze Hall
3:23 - Hope the Blue Whale
3:57 - Giraffe Taxidermy and Skeleton
4:37 - Turbinaria Coral
5:41 - Blue Marlin Wet Specimen
6:29 - American Mastodon
7:01 - Butterflies
7:44 - Dinosaur Collection
10:31 - Dippy the Diplodocus
12:33 - Charles Darwin Statue
13:54 - Mezzanine Level - Taxidermy Birds
14:27 - Blashka Glass Models
15:39 - Furze Platt Handaxe
16:16 - Hans Sloane's Nautilus and Lion's Skull
16:47 - Charles Darwin's First Edition and Pigeons
18:03 - The Great Auk
18:48 - Introduction to The Vault
19:22 - Duke of Devonshire Diamond
20:02 - Crystal Box Mystery
20:38 - Rhodochrosite
21:24 - Winchcombe Meteorite
22:00 - Guy the Gorilla
22:54 - Chi Chi the Panda
23:20 - Mammal Galleries
24:30 - The Spirit Collection
26:19 - Introduction to the Human Evolution Gallery
26:40 - Lucy - Australopithecus Afarensis
27:17 - Neanderthal and Early Homo Sapien Models
28:22 - Cheddar Gorge Man and Cannibalism
29:35 - The Escalator through the Centre of the Earth
30:07 - 1995 Kobe Earthquake Simulator
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Thank you, I am disabled and find trips out exhausting these days but the Natural History museum and Geology collection will always be special to me. I loved each of the videos that I’ve seen of yours so far.
Thank you so much for your kind words. People like you are the reason I do this!
I'm in the same boat; I'm almost completely confined to bed and visiting museums is one of the things I miss most. I'm so grateful for these videos.
Isn't TH-cam wonderful? I'm enjoying walking tours and mountain climbing, Grateful Dead concerts.@@GeorgiaGeorgette
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It truly is. It's such a remarkable resource and I'm so grateful for it.
The Natural Museum is a favorite of mine. I like to draw dragons and other mythical creatures, so I go there and draw the animals for inspiration. My favorite animals to draws are the dinosaurs. Drawing the skeletons really helps me learn their anatomy and how it can be used to make realistic drawings of mythical creatures. This is a great video. Please do one on the Cheddar area.
Cheddar is on the short list! Thank you for your kind words.
Thank you for your informative, well spoken and entertaining videos. Thank you for not being loud and dramatic, with annoying background music, like many other videos.
You’re very welcome!
LOVE the glass sculptures of marine invertebrates…thank you. In 1958 or 59, when I was 7 or 8, there was an earthquake that buckled Foul Bay Road in Victoria B.C., I remember watching the road crack and buckle with my siblings while the ground shook under us. Most houses had breakage of glass and crockery, it was pretty amazing to experience.🖤🇨🇦
Wow! What a memory.
Please, I’m so happy to have found your channel!! Glad to see you have posted again, I’m learning so much from you I love how informative you are 😁😁💖 keep up the great work and can’t wait to see further videos from you in the future ☺️
Thank you so much for your kind words!
I remember seeing Guy when he was alive. I love the London museums. I've taken numerous school parties to the Natural History and Science Museum.
Love all your videos there so professionally produced. Thankyou so much, love them all. Can't wait for the next one. ( I've seen them all now 😊).
Thanks so much!
Another great tour, thank you! My favorite was the Blaschka glass animals, they were amazing and very contemporary. Thanks again for all the work that goes into these!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love to look at a museum this way when I can not visit it in real life, thank you!
And yes please on the inner work of a museum!!!
You got it! Thank you for watching.
I’ve just found your channel so I’m going to watch all the other videos, as I’m a huge museum fan and this is my favourite that I’ve visited. Great job 👏 😊
Thank you! What other museums would you like to see?
@@TheMuseumGuide The mutter museum looks amazing , slightly longer journey though . 😂
Loved it, a beautiful museum!
It really is! Thank you so much.
The earthquake simulator reminds me of the volcano interior at the Denver natural history museum when I was a child. It didn't move, but it scared the hell out of me. Going back as a teen.... it was a clear acrylic floor with glowing "magma" and a fog machine.
I love museum displays like this!
Great tour. Really well done. I would like to watch anything you come up with. Cheers
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it. Let me know what you think of my others!
Incredibly detailed video. Thank you so much for this content…
Thank you for bringing this information to me. I've never been to a museum anywhere.
I love to learn new things though. Love this video. Thank you
You are so welcome!
Thank you for the video, and in particular the information about the collections and origins of specimens.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you. One of my favourite places in my childhood. I also loved the Science Museum.
It’s so wonderful for children! And adult children…
Beautiful collections and display
I loved this video very educational and informative 👏
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi, I love your show, I really think you would enjoy visiting the church from the 1300's, Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire. The isle is flat grave stones and there is a marble skeleton on one of the raised tombs. As it is on the top of a big hill, with a quarry on one side, the wind whips around it. Whilst there (near Donnington), it's worth going out towards a place called Grace dieu ruins (near Whitwick). Apparently a monk from a nearby monastery impregnated a nun who was placed behind a wall and died of starvation/dehydration/shock. I hope you enjoy them 😊🇬🇧
This is going on the list! Thank you so much!
Well done!! Loved the tour❤
Thank you!! 😊
What an amazing museum!. Thank you. 😊
My pleasure!
Great video. Visiting this weekend.
Have a great time, and thanks for watching!
Circa 1964 on a school trip went down one floor too many in the lift, found myself wandering around in all sorts of pipe work and infrastructure, eventually found my way back up. It was actually very interesting for a ten year old .
I can’t decide if that’s my dream or nightmare scenario! 🤣 thanks for watching.
I absolutely love this museum. I can spend all my free time there.
Me too!
I'm currently on a half-term holiday with my son to Berlin, which has got to be one of the museum capitals of the whole world, and I'm probably in danger of OD'ing on museums right now... All the same, I was really happy to watch this, as the Natural History Museum was probably the one that really ignited my interest in these places when I was a dino-mad kid. Great choice of exhibits to feature, as usual.
The revamped Hintz Hall and Cadogan gallery have done a really good job of highlighting some of the best exhibits in the NHM, and they deserve credit for it. As much as I love the 80's-tastic and tatty hall of mammals, I'm looking forward to seeing it spritzed up and modernised, as the other modernised galleries have only got better.
Thank you so much, Chris! I can't wait to head to Berlin to film some videos.
@@TheMuseumGuide Got home last night. Berlin's an absolutely wonderful city. I'd love to go back, and would love to see a video with your tips on what else to see if/ when you get the chance to film there.
Thank you so much. Loved this. I’m a tour guide at AMNH in NYC. You did a wonderful job
You are so welcome! What a kind compliment.
Really well filmed and presented video - thank you. I am planning to take my kids (11 and 8 years old) to the NHM during a staycation in the summer holiday... I think we will focus on a couple of areas, and maybe take a guided tour, then come back again, rather than try to breeze-through glimpsing everything.
Glad it was helpful! I would be delighted to guide you in person in the future. :)
Your videos i find very calming and informative, thank you for doing these. Hi from NZ
Glad you like them! I hope to come to NZ next year. :)
@@TheMuseumGuide Oh please do come to NZ, we'd love to have you!.
This video is a godsend!! I'm writing fanfiction where two characters go on a date here and I missed so many galleries on my trip to London because I didn't use a map and I'm only realising now that I've gone to write it 😢 love the detailed history, you're amazing 🥰
That’s so cool! Glad to be of service.
Amazing videos! Thank you so much for the details and inspiration 🙏 I wish I could find analogous videos for the museums in Belgium :)
I would love to do a few Belgian museums! Which would you recommend?
@@TheMuseumGuide that would be awesome! From the ones in Brussels - my favorite one is the Horta museum (there are many related art nouveau buildings), the Royal Museum for Central Africa and the Train museum (big impact from UK in the railway history). In Antwerp I love the following ones - Rubens, Plantin-Moretus and the Red star line museums.
I am preparing my visit to London and watching your videos to enjoy to the fullest my stay. Thank you so much for the inspiration :)
We have the world’s largest gem and mineral show here in Tucson. It takes place for 2 weeks every February. You can but raw, cut or polished gems as well as jewelry both pre made or. custom made. We also have an amazing gem and mineral museum where you can see the. mineral and gems in their natural states and lots of donated jewelry that are worth lots of $s ( they won’t say so much).
Tucson also has a natural history museum filled with taxidermied animal (we also have a traditional natural history museum).
The gem in our museums is the Desert Museum where all of the animals are live in the desert they are native too. It’s best to get there at 5:00 am when the animals are most active.
You are welcome to visit us.
That sounds fantastic! Thank you so much.
I love your videos, please keep going! I have a question about the Natural History Museum. It is one of my favorite museums, but I have not been there for about 10 years (I am living in the USA). I have always said that if you visit this museum you must "Look up! Look up!" Are all the panels with pictures of plants still there?
They are! I just couldn't capture them very well on my camera.
I love your videos
Thank you so much!
Me too!!!
I remember going here when i was smol, I want to visit again I remember when that globe around the escalator used to rotate
Museums like this one are so good at evoking childhood nostalgia! Thanks for watching.
Please visit Cheddar & Somerset. The Cheddar Man was found to have a living relative living within Somerset, in a nearby village.
I really need to go! I love Bristol, too.
Thank you so much. ❤
You’re very welcome!
We have a big metal Dippy outside the Carnegie Museums here in Pittsburgh, and they’re often wearing a fun seasonal scarf. It’s such a hoot to see them in people clothes lol. (Our Dippy has a Twitter, as well, which is wild because they have no thumbs for typing).
Sadly my favorite exhibit there is being pulled from public view since they found out there’s human in it. I understand and respect the ethics, but I’m still bummed.
It’s fun to see the connections between museums, thanks for sharing this 🙂
Living in Alma, Colorado it was so cool to see that amazing rhodochrosite. Between that and the moose I’m feeling like I live in an amazing place 😅
You should visit Arlington national cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Arlington was established by George Washington's adopted grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, to be a living memorial to the first president. Custis's daughter, Mary, married U.S. Army 1st Lieutenant Robert E. Lee in 1831. Then in 1864 it became a national cemetery. At Arlington there the tomb of the unknown soldier, and the lee house . The is a lot of walk there when I went there I walk 10 miles and I only did the western half.
I'd love to visit!
Thank you
You're very welcome!
Super well done. I hope I can visit some of the museums in the UK
Thank you Andy! Until then, you can live vicariously through my videos. :)
@@TheMuseumGuide I definitely will! Fingers crossed I may try to visit this winter!!
As a cripple living up North who has always wanted to visit these places but circumstances never allowed, your lovely vids allow me to learn so much more. Pity there is no atmosphere vision, but then again, no crowds either haha.
How about explaining the various different museums I'm London? They can be confusing.
Please watch ya pronunciation though lol. Eve olution. As in Adam and Eve lol.
Soz, I'm pedantic lol.
Keep the vids coming.
Thank you! In my Canadian accent, it will always be Evvvvolution. ;) I appreciate your subscribtion!
@@TheMuseumGuide Aww. No offence intended.
@@Fred-rj3er None taken. :)
I'm a big fan! ♥️
Thank you!
Ooo! A video on Cheddar Gorge, please!
It’s on the long list!
Excellent video. Have you been to Grant Museum at UCL? I believe it is the last old-school university natural history museum open to the public. They have the most complete Dodo skeleton in the world. And don’t miss the world-famous Jar of Moles.
I used to volunteer there! And it will be included in my upcoming video about the Strangest Museums in London. :) The video actually has a SECOND jar of moles. How's that for value?
Emerald = Taurus. Taurus adores; galleries, museums, cemeteries, the strange, macabre and so much more. Hand in glove.
Some Geminis, too! But yes, I am a Taurus. ;)
very nice ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
Thanks 🤗
What an EXCITING CHANNEL!
Thank you!
Tuna,swordfish and many gamefish were very common off britains coast in the 1800s and early 1900s. Bournemouth used to have a fishing trip to linw catch tuna in 1910-1920 ish.im very surprised the swordfish has been treated so special.
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What about Mary Annings famous complete fossil?? Loved seeing it there! Could you do a video on that one? Thx
Great suggestion!
Guy!!💗 We as a family used to visit Guy at the zoo every year. As a small child I would stand as close to the glass as possible and we would gaze into each other's eyes for minutes on end. I am perfectly convinced if the glass had vanished he wouldnt have hurt me. When he died we never went to the zoo again,and I havnt visited a zoo since. We only went to pay our yearly visit to our friend. I've never forgiven London Zoo for giving him the sweets that caused his teeth to rot! It still upsets me thinking about it. He died in the lorry taking him back to the zoo after having the teeth treated.
Poor chappy. Have you thought about visiting him at the NHM?
@@TheMuseumGuide I didnt know his remains were there until I watched your video. I would rather not view my friend stuffed. I want to remember our silent interaction and the careful way he peeled the skin off his grapes before eating them.
Please do a tour of the Science Museum.
Thanks
Love your channel
It’s on my short list! Thanks for watching. ❤️
@@TheMuseumGuide nice one
Sorry just discovered your work.... please do the London dungeon ...I will forward these to everyone o can
Thank you! The London Dungeon is a bit tricky, but I’ll look into it. :)
Trying to get a trip here to visit the stockton dinosaur,warwickshire, as I live very close to where he was found in a gravel pit
Cheddar gorge. Yes please!
I agree!!!! I am champing at the bit to head there.
Do you have any documentation of the construction of the building? Photos
They found a group of mastodon fossils on the property at the back of my place. There's a museum there now
Very cool! Where is this?
Just a thought, maybe consider making a video on Tate Modern? Its one of London's big museums. But, from what I can tell, there aren't many people making videos about it. You might not have much competition.
I have it filmed, but it’s so intimidating- even for me, an art nerd! Explaining modern art is tough. But I accept the challenge!
Coming soon The AMNH 🐻🐋🐘🦖
About giraffes read tall blonds by Lynn sherr
I’ll look into it! Thanks for watching.
Yeah I'd like to see how a museum works
How much should we pay in order to get into this museum?
It’s free!!! But you should book your visiting time online.
If you can find it check out the toy museum ....Tring zoological museum also good
Oh yes - Pollock's Toy Museum! Wonderful. I need to go!
We should probably give some of that stuff back....
Which of these items? And back to who?
I 100% agree with repatriation, but nothing on this tour is contested.
RIP Lucy you would have loved trail mix
Awwwww
"Would you like to see a video on ___"
The answer is yes
Hahaha - thank you!
Went there in 78 there was a blue whale in entrance back then .
After many years, he’s back!
@@TheMuseumGuide To be fair i think it was the big blue one you showed later in clip, sure there was a T rex too, i was only 8yrs old so yeah.
I haven't been there since 2012 i was like 7
Fun fact - Charles Darwin was born on same day as US President Abraham Lincoln
That is a fun fact!
Actually we have kept pigeons since ancient times as a form of fresh meat in winter
Absolutely true! Thanks for watching.
Friends show friends the truth
They also show off the Natural History Museum.
I have lived through a 6.9 magnitude earthquake.
The largest dinosaur was the Patagotitan
That’s another name for the Titanosaurus. ;)
Why not show the history of Tats?
Good idea!
That first edition of Darwins book is in Dutch ??? The cover is ...
Blame Google Image search! 🤣 thanks for watching.
I’m confused by her accent. It mostly sounds American except for a few words that definitely don’t sound American. Canadian?
Canadian in the UK for a decade. :)
For his time (so, not our time,) Darwin was not particularly racist. It is crazy imo when people describe historical figures using a modern lense. People aren't perfect; there are always good and bad things, virtueous and evil in existence; but 'then' was not 'now'. Humankind has evolved, at least in part for the better; but progresss means things were not understood in the past as they are now. Or many things anyway.
This beautiful lady looks SO, SO much like Caitlin Doughty... 👩🏻💼👩🏻💼
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She’s an acquaintance of mine! I’ve also written for her site. :)
DEVUELVAN EL MOAI. 🗿🗿🗿🗿🗿
I agree
Thank you, it's been quite a while since I was last at the museum and your guide showed me things that I have not seen, like the glass sculptures. I really need to pay another visit. A guide on how museums work would be really interesting. Your videos are great ❤ 🦍🦣
You're very welcome!
You talk so sweet
22:36 ok who the hell slept with the gorilla? That is not ok 😂. She’s like oh you know like comforting your dog or cat. No it’s not. I don’t feel I’m being controversial here in advising against even zoologists sleeping with gorillas.
Awww, I think it’s sweet! He was a gentle giant.
What's a "Coor Reef"? I've heard of a Coral Reef 🤷
You see, some folks have different accents depending on where they grew up or where they’ve lived for a long time. Hope that helps! ;)
Fattiest or the luckiest survive and reproduce?
Exactly!
Honest mistake, I meant FITTEST OR LUCKIEST!
Moose head
And a moose body!
I was watching this video before bed to gather ideas for a video-game I'm designing and I left this comment as a reminder for myself. Seeing your reply gave me a good chuckle!@@TheMuseumGuide
This lady here doesn't miss a chance to use this platform as her soap box. She is definitely a liberal mind.
Yes. It’s my channel. I can say what I wish. 🤣
Also, liberal as opposed to… closed minded? Ignorant? Uneducated?
@TheMuseumGuide you should not refer to yourself in such terms. You will grow out of it someday. I just find it rather tasteless for someone trying to teach history to include their own distorted bias.
@@williamshafer1996 all history narratives are biased. To think otherwise is naive and uneducated.
I aim to grow out of being liberal and become even more of a hardened leftist Marxist.
It's important to remember that while the so-called 'social-Darwinists' have misapplied darwinian evolution for oppression, Darwin himself was pretty racist, arguably more than average for his time. His book On the Descent of Man has some revolting ideas about race. He is very important to the field of biology but not exactly worthy of the apotheosis some people give him.
Thank you for this- I didn’t realise. Excellent point, and I’ll include this in any future content that mentions Darwin.
I’m interested, have you personally read On the origin of species & On the descent of man? I have and as a historian, I can tell you that he was less racist than the rest of Victorian Europe, not worse as you have implied.
I found it disappointing and many of the displays were very dirty and dusty.
Nobody is perfect, and his opinions on race were probably shared by the majority of people at the time. This is not to justify his behaviour in any way, just to emphasise that he was not the monster you make him out to be.
@@TheMuseumGuide just worry More about museums, and less about racism.
Hmm involved in the slave trade. Might want check your own involvement with the current slave trade.
No one has any idea what you’re talking about.
Between the tattoos and your gratuitous mention of slave trade was enough to cancel you with a thumbs down a
🤣
The history of this museum is inextricably linked with the slave trade. The museum’s own curation mentions it even more than I did, so you definitely wouldn’t like visiting.