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Central Hall (now Hintze Hall) ceiling in 2013. A pair of decorated ceilings in the main Central Hall (officially Hintze Hall since 2014) and smaller North Hall of the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, were unveiled at the building's opening in 1881.
Dippy in the Hintze Hall at the Natural History Museum in 2008. One of the most famous and certainly most prominent of the exhibits—nicknamed "Dippy"—is a 105-foot (32 m)-long replica of a Diplodocus carnegii skeleton which was on display for many years within the central hall.
Hope in the Hintze Hall at the Natural History Museum, London The whale is posed in a diving lunge. Hope is the skeleton of a blue whale displayed in the main hall of the Natural History Museum, London.
London's Natural History Museum has installed a four-and-a-half-ton blue whale skeleton to tower over the heads of visitors.
Dippy in the Hintze Hall at the Natural History Museum in 2008. The London cast of Dippy is a plaster cast replica of the fossilised bones of a Diplodocus carnegii skeleton, the original of which – also known as Dippy – is on display at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
The museum's Central Hall has since been renamed Hintze Hall. [ 30 ] Projects in culture and the arts have also enabled the refurbishment of the V&A's Sculpture Galleries, named the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Galleries, [ 31 ] and have included sponsorship of an iconic exhibition of Raphael 's Tapestries from the Sistine Chapel at the V&A , and ...
Dippy is a composite Diplodocus skeleton in Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and the holotype of the species Diplodocus carnegii.It is considered the most famous single dinosaur skeleton in the world, due to the numerous plaster casts donated by Andrew Carnegie to several major museums around the world at the beginning of the 20th century.
This is a list of natural history museums whose exhibits focus on the subject of natural history, including such topics as animals, plants, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, and climatology. Some museums feature natural-history collections in addition to other collections, such as ones related to history, art and science.