The institution said it remained committed to delivering key projects, including the redevelopment of St Fagans: Natural History Museum and providing a National Museum of Natural Sciences.
It is an idea that has been partially built into the new Wellcome Wing at the Science Museum and the recently opened Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum - both of which have high-turnover exhibits and bring the public into direct contact with scientists.
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Just like the Air and Space Museum challenges us to set our sights higher, or the Natural History Museum encourages us to look closer, or the Holocaust Museum calls us to fight persecution wherever we find it, this museum should inspire us as well.
He took the tusk home and stored it in the bath overnight before contacting experts at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, who then alerted London's Natural History Museum.
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He returned to New York and, in 1935, at age 51, became director of the Natural History Museum.
That was a view echoed by Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London.
After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions runs at the Natural History Museum, in London, until 29 Nov 2009.
Chris Stringer is Research Leader in Human Origins at the Natural History Museum in London.
Vieites, CSIC researcher to the press at the Spanish National Natural Sciences Museum in Madrid.
During the same expedition, the scientists sent one dead specimen to the Natural History Museum in London.
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Mr Blaszkiewitz said the polar bear may be preserved and displayed at Berlin's Natural History Museum, DPA reports.
It will be given to the Natural History Museum in London, where there is already a statue of Darwin.
The online collection will be launched by comedian and naturalist Bill Bailey at the Natural History Museum in London.
In 1812, a German botanist named August Friedrich Schweigger studied tortoise specimens at the natural history museum in Paris.
Since introducing charges, the Natural History Museum has been able to fund new educational projects, exhibitions, publications and research.
The fossils of the dinosaur, Nyasasaurus parringtoni, were part of a collection at the Natural History Museum in London.
The pterosaur fossil was donated to the Natural History Museum, which recently named the Isle of Wight as the "dinosaur capital of Great Britain".
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London's Natural History Museum is a place of wonderment and beauty... unless you're an eight-year-old who can't differentiate between reality and make-believe.
However, the experts at the Natural History Museum proved different .
Dr John Bridges of London's Natural History Museum, a member of the Beagle 2 landing site team, believes both targets are exciting.
"If we do not receive sufficient funding from the government we would consider reintroducing an admissions fee, " a Natural History Museum spokesperson said.
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In addition to his groundbreaking work in dinosaurs, he was also the driving force behind the establishment of the British Natural History Museum.
Stop by the Kokee Natural History Museum and Visitor Center, near mile marker 15 on Kokee Road, to purchase a complete hiking map.
The Natural History Museum has now had to reallocate the funding reserved for the project and we plan to invest the funds in other fieldwork.
In 1982, a French scientist named Roger Bour of the Paris Natural History Museum concluded that the Schweigger specimen didn't originate from Aldabra, after all.
Today, long after the soldiers who rode him have turned to dust, Comanche's taxidermy body remains standing to attention at Kansas University's Natural History Museum.
And we meet up with indie electronic music Dan Deacon outside of LA's Natural History Museum to talk about his live rig and innovative iPhone app.
Expedition leader Jorn Harald Hurum, from the University of Oslo's Natural History Museum, said "The Monster" would have been big enough to chomp on a small car.
Comedian Bill Bailey recently unveiled a restored portrait of Wallace at the Natural History Museum and has also filmed a two-part documentary for the BBC about Wallace.
The Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas, for example, is one of six university museums throughout the Midwest now mounting a new exhibit: Explore Evolution.
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