what special antique pieces will you find under that roof?
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who designed the ceilings of the natural history museum in london? Alfred Waterhouse what drawings do those depict? The central hall depicts plants considered significant to the history of the museum, o the British Empire and the smaller North Hall depicts plants growing in the British Isles.
Egyptian antiquities - like the Rosetta Stone. UNANSWERABLE A vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history
Ceilings of the Natural History Museum, London Natural History Museum, London
Background Introduction
With the British Museum now established numerous other collectors began to donate and bequeath items to the museum's collections, which were further swelled by large quantities of exhibits brought to England in 1771 by the first voyage of James Cook, by a large collection of Egyptian antiquities (including the Rosetta Stone) ceded by the French in the Capitulation of Alexandria, by the 1816 purchase of the Elgin Marbles by the British government who in turn passed them to the museum, and by the 1820 bequest of the vast botanical collections of Jos The Natural History Museum in London is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history
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Ceilings of the Natural History Museum, London [SEP] Introduction
The ceilings of the Natural History Museum are a pair of decorated ceilings in the main Central Hall (officially Hintze Hall since 2014) and smaller North Hall of the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, unveiled at the building's opening in 1881. They were designed by the museum's architect Alfred Waterhouse and painted by the artist Charles James Lea. The ceiling of the Central Hall consists of 162 panels, 108 of which depict plants considered significant to the history of the museum, to the British Empire or the museum's visitors and the remainder are highly stylised decorative botanical paintings.