London, Natural History Museum

I like this museum and enjoy very much every time I visit it. The building itself is already an exerience: it looks like a palace o even as a huge cathedral. One of my favourite sections is the dinosaur one because it looks sooo real! It´s better to go there as early as possible because one surely will stay there a good amount of time.

The entrance is free, but the food and drinks there are quite expensive, so try to go there without great hunger. Anyway there are many good places to eat outside. I would recommend this place to everybody who visits to London, it´s a place worth to see. Sometimes it can be a bit crowded, but even so you´ll still enjoy it.

I love this place, the building is stunning, clean and well laid out, but in the summer it can get extremely hot as there's no aircon. If you are going to see the dinosaurs go outside of the school holidays - I've been twice in the last few months (summer holidays) and there has been a huge queue for the dinosaur area so I didn't get to see that part. A few good cafes are scattered around the building along with some nice gift shops. If you don't want to eat here, there are plenty of cafes and restaurants in the area too, or take a picnic and eat outside the museum on the lawn.

Entry is free, but they do have donation boxes so give generously!

This is one of my favourite places in London. Whenever I go there I make sure I have time to visit it. Been there numerous times , but still enjoying every piece.

This is only a part review of the NHM, specifically regarding the current Wildlife Photography exhibition. The show has only just opened following the announcement of the results of the competition, and it runs through to April 2010.

I can fully recommend this to anyone that has an interest in the natural world, and an appreciation for the art of photography. Knowin the patience and dedication that many of the photographers displayed in gathering their images only adds to the impressive quality. There are some truly wonderful insights into the natural world - both animal kingdom and wildlife as a whole.

You will need a good couple of hours to enjoy all of the pictures without rushing, and I highly recommend booking in advance. There were large queues at all entrances to the NHM when we arrived, but luckily we had pre-booked tickets and could skip the wait. At £8 a ticket (adults), it is a small price to pay to be inspired.

A Very good day out at London, Natural History Museum. Unbelievably its free!!! Well worth the trip to London. At last a day out in England with the kids that isn't a rip off. Definitely would go again.

The Natural History Museum makes a fantastic day out, whilst entrance is free the cost of public transport for a family could add up. I wouldn't recommend driving here as parking is extremely scarce and expensive as in most areas of inner London. Also refreshments within the museum are very expensive, I ended up paying in excess of £25 for three sandwiches, a cake, a fruit salad and three drinks in the cafe whilst shelling out a further £10 for what was a bowl of cheap pasta in tomato sauce and a bottle of water in the canteen. It would have saved me a lot if I'd opted for packed lunches or eaten at the nearest McDonalds or Pret A Manger instead.

I suggest going quite early especially if you have small children who constantly need to use the toilet to make a day of it and see everything.

Upon arriving your bags are searched for security reasons and you are greeted by an enormous Diplodocus skeleton. The routes for different areas are clearly mapped out and marked in different colours.

The museum is in sections. The dinosaur section contains many fossils, bones and to the excitement of my son, lifelike, moving dinosaurs, the large articulated T-Rex was great.

You will then probably visit the area about modern animals, consisting of hundreds of real, stuffed animals and activities pushing buttons, I found many of them didn't work. There was also an area nearby with insects and a real ant farm.

There is also an area about the human body, I did find this area of the museum to be lacking in character, it seemed quite dated here, for example the carpet was severely worn and the mural on human pregnancy seemed to be faded in areas, most of the machines here seemed to be only half-working. There is a "womb room" on the website it pretty much hypes it up, all it happened to be was a scaled up model of a foetus in a dark "room" with heart beat noises. It seemed quite out of date, old and worn. However the machines on sight, etc, where you can test your own senses were great, those that were working anyway!

The area on rocks, space, the Earth, etc, is fascinating. There were plenty of rock samples, etc to look at and many more modern machines to look at and use. One of the only areas in the whole museum where they were all working! I strongly recommend the "Earthquake room", an area upstairs made to look like a shop in the far east with simulated Earthquake motions. I'm unsure what it would be like in a real earthquake but this really felt like you were there.

To my disappointment the "Darwin" centre was closed for refurbishment, this was the reason I wanted to come to the museum and they could have explained this on the website.

All in all, I would recommend The Natural History Museum, it can be a very cheap, yet educational day out. Do bare in mind that some displays aren't what they are cracked up to be on the website and that some of the exhibitions here are in serious need of updating, especially the human body section.

My girlfriend convinced me to go to the Natural History museum in London in an attempt to impart some culture on me. I'm not really a museum person but thought i'd give it a go as it was free. There is some really quality stuff in there with everything from dinosaurs to rocks, Big trees to human evolution. The only down side really was the fact the place was crawling with children although i guess to most people that's not such a bad ting and they all seemed to be enjoying themselves. Well worth a visit though considering it costs nothing if you're in the area.