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Explore one of the world's finest collections of 500,000 rocks, gems and minerals, including 5,000 meteorites, and find out how you can use it as a resource for economic geology and scientific research at the Natural History Museum in London. The Natural History Museum in London is a museum exhibiting a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Natural History Museum's main frontage, however, is on Cromwell Road. The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology. The museum is a world-renowned ce