{"id":746,"date":"2020-04-19T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discover2learn.com\/?p=746"},"modified":"2022-02-23T08:42:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T08:42:52","slug":"take-a-virtual-tour-of-the-natural-history-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/virtual-visits\/take-a-virtual-tour-of-the-natural-history-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Take a virtual tour of the Natural History Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>Natural History Museum<\/b> in London is a \u00a0museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture\u2014sometimes dubbed a <i>cathedral of nature<\/i>\u2014both exemplified by the large <i>Diplodocus<\/i> cast that dominated the vaulted central hall before it was replaced in 2017 with the skeleton of a blue whale hanging from the ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>Take the virtual tour here &gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/artsandculture.google.com\/streetview\/the-natural-history-museum-hintze-hall\/yQHjHCmSOMKyhQ?sv_lng=-0.1763002033314968&amp;sv_lat=51.49614943214926&amp;sv_h=331.75314380422486&amp;sv_p=19.298937890525337&amp;sv_pid=xCOPaa20DC3Z4eRiKDUyew&amp;sv_z=0.14976454856638333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Natural History Museum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Natural History Museum in London is a \u00a0museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}