Bickmore’s vision of establishing a natural history museum ... tradition dates back to the late 19th century, when Morris K. Jesup became president of the museum. During his tenure from 1880 ...

Our curator Miranda Lowe CBE explores the colonial history of the Natural History Museum and reveals some of the untold ... The vast collection of seventeenth-century doctor Sir Hans Sloane eventually ...

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the natural history collections at the British Museum had well outgrown their lodgings. New specimens and knowledge were flooding in from expeditions around ...

New York State Museum, Albany, N.Y. Mushrooms in 19th-century watercolors ... said she hoped that the exhibition demonstrated why natural history collections like this one deserve public support ...

John James Audubon, the pre-eminent 19th-century painter of birds ... (A snowy egret specimen from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s ornithology collections, above, documents ...

The Natural History Museum’s taxidermy dioramas turn a century old this year, and to celebrate the museum is reviving an entire hall of displays that’ve been dark for decades. Expect some ...