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Although commonly referred to as the Natural History Museum, it was officially known as British Museum (Natural History) until 1992, despite legal separation from the British Museum itself in 1963. Originating from collections within the British Museum, the landmark Alfred Waterhouse building was built and opened by 1881 and later incorporated ...
Natural History Museum: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London 58 m (190 ft) 1880 [51] 3= Eden Project: St Blazey, Cornwall: 55 m (180 ft) 2001 [52] 3= Imperial War Museum North: Trafford, Greater Manchester: 55 m (180 ft) 2002 [53] 5 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Birmingham, West Midlands: 46 m (151 ft) 1885 [54] 6
The natural history collections had originally shared a building with their parent institution the British Museum, but with the expansion of the British Empire there was a significant increase in both public and commercial interest in natural history, and in the number of specimens added to the museum's natural history collections. In 1860 it ...
An exterior view of the Natural History Museum in London, England on Oct. 30, 2010.
List of tallest buildings and structures in the United Kingdom by usage; List of tallest buildings in the United Kingdom by settlement; List of tallest buildings and structures in Birmingham; List of tallest buildings and structures in Brighton and Hove; List of tallest buildings and structures in Bristol; List of tallest buildings and ...
The Shard is the tallest building in the UK.. As of January 2025, there are 177 habitable buildings (used for living and working in, as opposed to masts and religious use) in the United Kingdom at least 100 metres (330 ft) tall, [1] 132 of them in London, 25 in Greater Manchester, eight in Birmingham, four in Leeds, two each in Liverpool and Woking, and one each in Brighton and Hove ...
There is another major skyscraper cluster emerging in the Vauxhall and Nine Elms districts of London. [70] [71] The first skyscraper to appear here was St George Wharf Tower at 181 metres (594 ft) and which was completed in 2014. [72] The tallest tower planned for this cluster is the 200 metres (660 ft) One Nine Elms City Tower. [73]
The Main Hall, The Natural History Museum, note the cast-iron roof trusses, with the ceiling panels painted with plants from across the World, the skylights are the main source of light and the imperial staircase rises to the first floor on the end wall, the hall has aisles and on the floor above galleries, as in the nave of a Romanesque cathedral