First opened on Easter Monday 1881, the museum has been a popular place to visit for many years. The National History Museum is the largest natural history collection in the world and is home to over 70 million specimens. Enjoy a fascinating day and see many interesting items, from tiny cells on slides to huge dinosaur skeletons.

There is a fantastic range of specimens at the museum, for instance there are 55 million animals, including 28 million insects. There are also nine million fossils and an impressive collection of plant, rock, mineral and meteorite specimens.

The Natural History Museum at Tring is a beautiful Victorian museum home to Lionel Walter Rothschild's collection of mounted creatures ranging from mammals to insects. The world-class research and collections of the Natural History Museum's Bird Group can also be found at the museum. Be sure to see the bird collection representing about 95 per cent of known bird species.

Natural History Museum Highlights:

• Marvel at material from the extinct dodo, meteorites from Mars and a full size blue whale skeleton.
• Stand right next to a massive T.rex skeleton and get a real idea of the size of these dinosaurs. You can also see a Triceratops skeleton and learn all about the 160 million year dinosaur era.
• View the Ida fossil cast and see why scientists believe this 47-million-year-old Darwinius masillae fossil could be our earliest ancestor.
• Discover the skulls of a dwarf hippo and a hobbit on display at the museum.
• Venture through the museum's Red, Green, Blue and Orange zones. Learn something new with every step.
• Don't miss the natural history library home to the largest collection of natural history materials in the world. There are books, periodicals, original drawings, painitings, prints, manuscripts and maps.

Food & Drink

• Restaurant
• Central Hall Cafe

• The Red Zone Sandwich Bar (closed until August for refurbishment ) is currently being replaced by a temporary cafe
• Snack bar