Dry Store Room No. 1
Subtitle: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
By: Richard Fortey.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780307263629
Subjects: Natural History Museum (London, England); Natural History Museum (London, England) -- History
Other titles: Secret life of the Natural History Museum
Description: In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Fortey acquaints the reader with the extraordinary people, meticulous research and driving passions that helped to create the timeless experiences of wonder that fill London's Natural History Museum. And with the museum's hallways and collection rooms providing a dazzling framework, Fortey offers an often eye-opening social history of the scientific accomplishments of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.--From publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: London : HarperPress, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-318) and index.
Table of contents: title: Behind the galleries; title: The naming of names; title: Old worlds; title: Animalia; title: Theatre of plants; title: Multum in parvo; title: Museum rocks; title: Noah's Ark in Kensington; title: House of the Muses.