Natural History Museum at Tring

Tags:: Natural History Museum Museum Natural History Rothschild Tring

Edit Video Details

By: ipodity
Subscribers: 6
Updated: 03-Oct-09
Videos: 42

English
Comments: 0
Views: 365
Added: 28-Mar-09

More info :
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/tring/index.html

Welcome to the Natural History Museum at Tring

Discover the fascinating range of animals collected by Lionel Walter Rothschild in our beautiful Victorian Museum. It is home to the world-class research and collections of the Natural History Museum's Bird Group

The remarkable collections in the galleries of the Natural History Museum at Tring were once the private passion of its founder, Lionel Walter, 2nd Baron Rothschild. The Rothschild family gifted the entire Museum and its collections to the nation in 1937. This section celebrates Walter Rothschild as scientist, collector and founder of the Museum.

Walter himself was a remarkable character. As well as collecting many thousands of mounted animals, he kept an astonishing variety of live animals in the grounds around the Museum and in Tring Park. He even used zebras to draw his carriage.

see more interesting videos at:
http://www.ipodity.com