The Natural History Museum in 1900

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Arthur H. Beavan continued his survey of London's museums in Imperial London, 1901, with this look at the Natural History Museum:

A little way to the south, in Cromwell Road, was the Natural History Museum (a department of the British Museum), a fine building of brick and terracotta, in whose lofty, well-lighted galleries, the geological, mineralogical, and botanical national collections had ample room to be displayed; while the zoological specimens - birds, beasts, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc - were exhibited to the greatest advantage, the groups of birds, their nests, eggs, and young (after nature) being as perfect as it is possible to imagine.

At this Museum the catering was very poor (in 1900), an ascent to the top gallery being requisite to obtain anything edible or potable, and the famished visitor's only resource was to leave the building and go to some restaurant in the vicinity of South Kensington station; for clearly the study of the "ologies," in the opinion of the "authorities," could be conducted on a dietary of stale buns and weak tea.

This was one of the museums open on Sundays from 2 p.m. till dusk.

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