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The Natural History Museum on Cromwell Road in South Kensington occupies a terracotta-clad building by Alfred Waterhouse, opened in 1881. Its collections hold some 80 million specimens in botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology; a blue whale skeleton hangs in the vaulted central hall, and the galleries show dinosaur skeletons.
The Design Museum in Kensington shows product, industrial, graphic, fashion and architectural design. Founded in 1989 by Sir Terence Conran at Shad Thames, it moved in 2016 into the former Commonwealth Institute, a listed 1960s building with a hyperbolic paraboloid roof, where the collection display Designer Maker User fills the top floor.
The Museum of Brands in Notting Hill shows the history of consumer culture from Victorian times to the present through more than 12,000 everyday items from the Robert Opie Collection, from packaging and posters to toys and games. Set up as a charity in 2002, it moved in 2015 to the former London Lighthouse building on Lancaster Road.
Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship built at Dumbarton in 1869, one of the last tea clippers, which later carried wool from Australia. In dry dock at Greenwich since 1954, she was restored after a fire in 2007 and raised above a glass canopy, so visitors can walk her deck, explore the hold and stand beneath the hull.
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich covers Britain's history at sea. Opened by King George VI in 1937 in the former Royal Hospital School buildings on the edge of Greenwich Park, it holds more than two million items, including maritime paintings, maps, ship models, navigational instruments and objects linked to Nelson and Captain Cook.
The Royal Observatory stands on a hill in Greenwich Park; King Charles II commissioned it in 1675, and Flamsteed House, its first building, was completed in 1676 to a design by Christopher Wren. The Prime Meridian passes through the site, which gave its name to Greenwich Mean Time. It is now a museum of astronomy and timekeeping with a planetarium.
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