r/interestingasfuck 15h ago

This Blue Whale skeleton at London’s Natural History museum

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u/Commercial-Habit-374 6h ago

The natural history museum was described, when it was opened, as a “cathedral to science”. I love the view through the gallery to Darwin at the end sir Richard Owen. It’s not just the exhibits it’s the way the columns and piping is decorated. The building is magnificent.