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This is my children's favourite among all the museums in London, with certainly the most dramatic entrance of any of them. When you walk in you find yourself face to face with the full size Diplodocus skeleton as you enter the Life Galleries. Alongside this dinosaur's 26-metre length, you will discover more exciting specimens from the Museum's collections.

The Central Hall itself is a magnificent sight, with its intricately painted ceiling and terracotta animals and plants.

It is home to some of the Museum's most amazing specimens, with touch screens in a variety of languages introducing other Museum galleries.

The great thing about the Natural History Museum is that it covers the span from the beginnings of life through to the modern day, and manages to make learning interesting, by catching the interest of children, who do not realise how much useful knowledge they are accumulating. They simply love to experience the thrill of life amongst the dinosaurs.

Robotic technology allows you to witness a prehistoric spectacle as three carnivorous Deinonychus feed noisily on a freshly killed Tenontosaurus.

You can become a dinosaur detective and examine fossilised bones, teeth and eggs to find out about dinosaurs.

They lived on this planet for 160 million years, and were a hugely varied group of reptiles, which lived on land, could not fly and walked on straight legs tucked underneath their bodies.

Visit our close relatives, the primates, and discover the differences and the similarities between us. Exhibits explore their intelligence, communication and social behaviour and remind us of the dangers they face. Like us Homosapiens, many primates have 3-D vision and some also have an opposable thumb and finger with which to grasp objects. Our most intelligent relatives, the apes, use tools and can even learn symbols that represent objects. Scientists believe apes can actually 'talk' with them by using these symbols.

Discover how we are linked with all the living things in our world, a complex environment where the balance of air, earth, energy from sunlight and water is crucial for survival. Ecology is the study of connections, examining the links between life-forms, communities and environments. Humans are just one part of this complex jigsaw, which is constantly changing as natural disasters, human activity and climate changes influence growth and decline.

Disabled Access
Disabled access is via the Earth Galleries entrance. The majority of galleries are accessible to wheelchair users. For further information about access for disabled visitors pl