Museum treasures
The Natural History Museum cares for an unrivalled collection of beautiful, rare and scientifically important items. Find out about some of our most exceptional objects and specimens, which can be found in our new Treasures Cadogan Gallery.
Discover the extraordinary stories they have to tell, about our world and the remarkable people who have helped explore and understand it.
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Moa bone fragment
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Blaschka glass models
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On the Origin of Species book
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s insects
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Charles Darwin's pigeons
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The Birds of America book
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Dwarf elephant tooth
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Wold Cottage meteorite
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Hans Sloane’s nautilus shell
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Emperor penguin egg
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Barbary lion skull
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Great auk
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Joseph Banks’ herbarium sheet
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Dodo skeleton
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Archaeopteryx fossil
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Richard Owen painting
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Iguanodon teeth
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Moon rock
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William Smith’s ammonites
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George Clifford’s herbarium sheet
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Neanderthal skull
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Broken Hill skull
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TREE artwork
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Guy the gorilla
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