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Natural History Museum top of the polls
30/11/2007
The Natural History Museum has been voted one of the seven wonders of London by Time Out magazine.
Time Out describes the Museum as a stunning cathedral dedicated to the natural world, where botanists, zoologists, palaeontologists and mineralogists are constantly pushing the boundaries in their fields of work.
The article highlights the importance of the Museum's collections, which are among the largest and most comprehensive scientific collections in the world. Of great historical importance, the collections are essential for the work of scientists globally.
70 million specimens are looked after at the Museum and the public can see everything from a giant squid to a model of a blue whale, a gold nugget to a Martian meteorite, and tiny lichen to flesh-eating beetles. Among the specimens and items collected over the last 400 years are Darwin's finches and Alfred Russell Wallace's notes and letters. There are also many type specimens, which are the unique specimens used to represent a species.
More than 300 scientists work at the Museum where among other things they help solve problems in agricultural, medical and forensic science.
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