A full list of the drawings was compiled by Jean Ingles and Frederick Sawyer in A Catalogue of the Richard Owen Collection of Palaeontological and Zoological Drawings in the British Museum (Natural ...

Discover how whales were at the heart of Richard Owen's original proposal for a museum of natural history in Britain. The founding of the Natural History Museum in London can be traced back to the ...

Richard Owen, the first superintendent of the Museum ... Despite the opposition, Owen won the battle and the Natural History Museum finally opened in 1881. The building’s decorative and Romanesque ...

Something needed to be done. Rough architectural plan drawn by Richard Owen entitled 'Idea of a Museum of Natural History', 1859. His initial concept included a circular lecture theatre and ample ...

Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) was one of the most famous comparative anatomists of his time. Not only did he instigate the separation of the British Museum and its expanding natural history collection, ...

Following the sudden death of the architect originally appointed to design the Natural History Museum ... century Romanesque-style architecture, in line with Museum founder Sir Richard Owen’s vision ...

but it wasn't officially renamed the Natural History Museum until 1992. In 1856 Sir Richard Owen - the natural scientist who came up with the name for dinosaurs - left his role as curator of the ...