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American Museum of Natural History, New York
Theodore Roosevelt Park on the Upper West Side is home to the American Museum of Natural History. This expansive museum contains over 34 million specimens, representing plants, animals, fossils, minerals, meteorites, and cultural artefacts, collected from across the globe.
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If you've ever visited, you'll know about the life-size sculpture of a blue whale that hangs in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, but did you know about the Andros Coral Reef? Detailed photographs allowed the creation of this diorama, which depicts a reef on a day in June 1920.
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Natural History Museum Vienna
The Natural History Museum Vienna owes its expansive collection to the passions of the Austrian emperors and enlightenment scientists. The museum is still laid out according to the 19th-century belief that life progressed from simplicity to perfection.
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Towards the end of your tour, you'll come to the prehistoric galleries. Here, is the highlight of the museum's collection: the Venus of Willendorf. This stone sculpture is the oldest-known depiction of a human being - it's thought to be around 25-30,000 years old.
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National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo
In Tokyo, the National Museum of Nature and Science strives to tell the story of "the coexistence of humankind and nature". Half of the museum is dedicated to Japanese natural history, and the other half to the rest of the world.
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Here, in the Japan section, we can see a variety of fossils. Above our heads, hangs the long-tailed skeleton of a Futabasaurus. This plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous was discovered in Fukushima in 2006 by Tadashi Suzuki, who was then a high school student.
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MUSE - The Science Museum, Trento
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On the lowest level of the museum you'll find the tropical greenhouse. This is designed to replicate the environment of the Udzungwa Mountains in Tanzania. You start in the Kilombero Valley and continue on to the submontane forest, encountering animals and plants along the way.
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The Natural History Museum, London
The soaring, neo-Gothic exhibition halls of London's Natural History Museum can't be missed. Like a cathedral, it's dedicated to the glories of the natural world, from the 4.6 billion year-old Wold Cottage meteorite, to Dippy the Diplodocus.
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At the top of the grand staircase sits a stone statue of Charles Darwin - the scientist who first described evolution by natural selection in his groundbreaking book, On the Origin of Species, and laid the groundwork for the modern understanding of natural history.
