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. What is the Natural History Museum famous for?

        The Natural History Museum

The museum houses 68 million specimens of animals, plants, minerals, rocks, fossils. It was first opened to the public in 1881. It was a department of the British museum but its collection grew and it moved to a new building. Now it is famous all over the world for its beautiful galleries. The visitors can enjoy exhibitions about the natural world: dinosaurs, meteorites, cosmic mineralogy, origin of species, human biology, ecology etc. There are 1.7million visitors to the Museum each year. It is also a very important scientific center. More than 300 scientists study the diversity of nature in 5 departments.