The Natural History Museum The Natural History Museum is on Cromwell Road in the South Kensington area of London. Originally the exhibits were in the British Museum but they ran out of room. Then they decided to build another museum. They held a competition in 1864 to decide who should design it, Captain Francis Fowke won, but unfortunately he died in 1885. So, they decided to give first place to Alfred Waterhouse who made some alterations to the plans. He got his ideas from a previous trip to Germany. The construction began in 18873 and was finished in 1880. By 1881 the exhibits had been moved and the new museum opened. On the eastern wing there are extinct creatures and on the western wing there are living forms. There are terracotta tiles inside and out which were attractive and practical because of acid smog in Victorian London. Oliver Ward 4H
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