Talk:Natural History Museum, London

message: "Natural History Museum" is a rather generic title. There are several notable museums of natural history with that title.   The one in LA is fairly famous as well. Therefore this page should be a disambiguation page. But what should we name the British Natural History Museum? Is British Natural History Museum OK, or something more formal/specific? The one in LA would be either Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County or Los Angeles Natural History Museum... --mav 05:36, 22 November 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: The London one is, I believe, the original Natural History Museum. As far as I know it's never been called by any other name. Calling it "The British Natural History Museum" might imply a connection with the British Museum that no longer exists. Lee M 01:46, 2 January 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The British Museum certainly does still exist. It's between Tottenham Court Road and Holborn and recently had a huge new glass roof put in. Clinkophonist 12:41, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahem, he didn't say that :-) Defuse (talk) 23:29, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

text:  Others should go on Natural History Museum (disambiguation), with a note to that effect at the head of this article. Andy Mabbett 18:19, 11 July 2004 (UTC)

text: I know this is an old discussion, but just to note the article Natural history museum for the concept of an NHM (note the capitalisation) - and :Category:Natural history museums which lists others. As the list seems to show, no other NHM seems to just use NHM as its official title. (It's a bit like postage stamps - the UK invented them so they get the right to not have to specify the country. :) ) Loxlie 01:23, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: I believe the internal corridor linking the Science Museum and the Life Galleries may now be closed. Can anyone confirm? Lee M 04:05, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it unlikely that the NHM/Earth combo was ever linked directly to the Science Museum. Their institutional history was quite different. The NHM was 'owned' by the British Museum, and they guarded their 'property' with vigour! The Sci Mus was set up in Sth Ken first, as part of a quite different scheme. Macdonald-ross (talk) 07:04, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Corridor

message: Anyone know about a collection at Sydenham (Crystal Palace) in the 1850s? I am struggling to make sense of this Dinosaur Cartoon in Punch? I thought the Great exhibition spun off part of the Nat Hist Museum?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.5.171.141 (talk) 15:20, 11 March 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The dinosaur sculptures at Sydenham by Waterhouse Hawkins (depicted accurately in the Punch cartoon, although now known to be hugely anatomically incorrect) were never part of the collection that went to South Kensington. See The Crystal Palace#Attractions. They survived the Crystal Palace fire of 1936 and survive to this day. They were even used in a Guinness commercial, in which Rutger Hauer stood next to one of them and muttered, "if it didn't exist you'd have to invent it" (referring either to the dinosaur or to the beer). Lee M 19:22, 30 April 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Sydenham

message: I have added the picture of the hanging skeletons and the picture of the monkey face. It's a good way to illustrate a more enjoyable side of the museum.
Onofre Bouvila 12:57, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the pics. Love the monkey skeletons. The head pic needs a better caption I think - I've removed the old one. Could you add something more specific? I'd also like to add a pic or two (some behind-the-scenes ones), so we might have to think about space. Loxlie 01:57, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have added two amazing pictures

message: I've expanded the article considerably, added sections, and updated some of the old info. I've kept almost everything that was there, except trimming a few bits. More to do tomorrow, including spellcheck, some formatting, re-organising pics and adding a couple of my own, and referencing. Feel free to comment. Loxlie 01:57, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New expansion 

message: Please help to populate :Category:Employees of the Natural History Museum. Thank you. Andy Mabbett 22:50, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Category for employees

message: Is it worth mentioning that the NHM has, besides the mentioned Tring site, a site in Wandsworth? There are as far as I know only the three sites, so it's not a stretch to note them all.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.140.9.207 (talk) 16:42, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Wandworth Site

message: Does anyone have a picture of the thylacine taxidermy in there collection,or have a link to it? (Dirrtypittie (talk) 01:42, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Thylacine Taxidermy

message: In the 4th or 5th para of History and Architecture it notes: "With some justification, Bill Bryson..." Given that this justification isn't specifically mentioned or cited, isn't this a bit weaseley? The reader can draw their own conclusion of Owen's efforts and Bryson backs that up. I would normally be bold and delete it but am nervous as this is an otherwise excellent article and would like some opinion or consensus. Bigger digger (talk) 23:31, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Changed the wording to something more acceptable . Bigger digger (talk) 15:58, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Odd bit of POV/non-encyclopedic writing

message: This edit introduced information on the NHM Library to the lead of the article. I think it's useful info but don't think it belongs in the introduction but I'm not sure where else to put it. Any help from anyone? Bigger digger (talk) 15:47, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Library 

message: Autochthony writes: I was told - on my first visit, in about 1962 - that the Diplodocus cast was 'Ploddy'; was I led up the garden path?  And I think it is about 87 feet long, not over a hundred.  Autochthony 2026z 31 July 2009.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.194.33 (talk) 20:33, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: 'Dippy'

message: I wanted to find out how the museum is funded, but this is a curious omission from the Wikipedia page.
The most recent NHM annual report, available from http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/hc0708/hc09/0908/0908.asp , shows £45.4 million (54 per cent) of the museum's £83.4 million income came from the government ("grant in aid")
(apologies if this isn't all to protocol - first go. Y)
Yaffle69 (talk) 16:21, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  NHM's funding? 

message: Is there a reason why the :Category:natural history museum is listed as a sub-category of :category:British Museum? I understand that the two institutions were once the same thing, but this was also the case for the British Library and it is independently categorised now. Is there a particular reason why the British Museum is considered a parent category to the NHM? Couldn't they just be members of each other's categories rather than in a parent-child category relationship? Witty Lama 15:56, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there an existing, or obviously nameable, supercat for both?  If so, the fix would seem to be to make them (and the BL, VA, and NRM) into sibling children of it. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:03, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Not that i'm aware of, and IMO, it would be a pretty arbitrary category if we did that. For example, currently the whole "natural history museum" category is a sub-cat of "British Museum" but the British Library article isn't even in the "British museum" category - let alone as a subcategory! I would suggest moving them all out so they are all independent categories, but with each institution's article being potentially a member of the other's category. Witty Lama 01:15, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've gone ahead and done this - removed the category:natural history museum from the category:british museum, but on the other hand I've put the article Natural history museum in the category:british museum. Witty Lama 21:52, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  categories 

message: I've proposed that the Earth Hall article be merge with Geological Museum, please discuss here.--ThePaintedOne (talk) 08:19, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger of [[Earth Hall]] to [[Geological Museum]] 

message: I have made Director of the Natural History Museum unfortunately there are a couple of gaps, if you could help fill those gaps, that'd be great. thx. Flying Fische (talk) 13:11, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: fish don't galup loop https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Natural_History_Museum,_London 2603:8081:3F00:3415:797F:ACF7:8879:69D1 (talk) 19:41, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Director of the Natural History Museum]] 

message: "A very young scientist at the London Natural History Museum" says the photograph with the little girl sketching a dinosaur (lower down on the right). This is an encyclopaedia. Not a platform for comedy. I'm changing the text. Rlinfinity (talk) 15:33, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccurate photograph caption 

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message: "Natural History Museum" redirects here, rather than the "Natural history museum" article.  The admin summary of a previous move request, which was granted, explicitly stated that capitalization alone was not sufficient to counter the more widespread generic use of the term.Recognize North (talk) 23:38, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect 

message: Hi. The information on the building states: Owen saw that the natural history departments needed more space, and that implied a separate building as the British Museum site was limited. Land in South Kensington was purchased, and in 1864 a competition was held to design the new museum. The winning entry was submitted by the civil engineer Captain Francis Fowke, who died shortly afterwards. The scheme was taken over by Alfred Waterhouse who substantially revised the agreed plans, and designed the façades in his own idiosyncratic Romanesque style which was inspired by his frequent visits to the Continent. The original plans included wings on either side of the main building, but these plans were soon abandoned for budgetary reasons. The space these would have occupied are now taken by the Earth Galleries and Darwin Centre. However as per the 1862 International Exhibition page and associated references, the building already existed! Davidstewartharvey (talk) 08:14, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: As the article referred to says, Parliament refused to purchase the original exhibition building and it was dismantled and sold for use in the construction of Alexandra Palace. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 09:22, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Building information wrong