1. London museums October 2009 Germo Hünerson

2. Natural History Museum

3. Information Location: Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, Established:1881 Doors open: Open every day10.00 – 17.50 Admission fee: Free Visitors in 2008: 3,698,500 (4)

4. Exhibition Dippy: 32m long skeleton of Diplodocus carnegie Named after Andrew Carnegie Most seen dinosaur

5. Exhibition Blue whale Life-size Weight: 10 tonns, Lenght: 28.3 m

6. Earth galleries Rocks and minerals Fossils Natural disasters Oceans

7. The Victoria and Albert Museum

8. Information Location: Cromwell Gardens, South Kensington, London Established: 1852 World's largest museum of decorative arts and design Admission fee: free Visitors in 2008: 2,065,300 (7)

9. Exhibition 12.5 acres (0.5 km²) 145 galleries over 4.5 million objects (largest) From: Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa. holdings of ceramics, glass, textiles, costumes, silver, ironwork, jewellery, furniture, medieval objects, sculpture, prints and printmaking, drawings and photographs

10. Michelangelo's David Height: 5.17m (17 ft) Year: 1504 Cast

11. National Portrait Gallery

12. Information Location: St Martin's Place, WC2, London Established: 1856 Visitors in 2008: 1,843,266 Admission fee: free Open daily 10:00-18:00; On Thursday and Friday open until 21:00

13. Exhibition Collection size: 10,000 portraits Houses: portraits of historically important and famous British people Best-known: Chandos portrait (the most famous portrait of William Shakespeare)

14. Thank You for listening

15. Literature http://www.alva.org.uk/visitor_statistics/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_Mus eum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_Mus eum http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature- online/earth/antarctica/index.html http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature- online/earth/antarctica/index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_ Museum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_ Museum http://www.vam.ac.uk/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Portrait_Ga llery_(London) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Portrait_Ga llery_(London http://www.npg.org.uk/home.php