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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.
This list of museums in Washington, D.C. encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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.
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 ...
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, America's first natural history museum. There are natural history museums in all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia. The oldest such museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1812. [1]
The Hall Sapphire and Diamond Necklace, National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC. The Hall Sapphire and Diamond Necklace has 36 matched sapphires from Sri Lanka which total 195 carats. These sapphires are surrounded by 435 brilliant-cut diamonds that total 83.75 carats.