Geological Museum

For other uses, see Geological Museum (disambiguation).

51°29′47″N 0°10′36″W / 51.49639°N 0.17667°W / 51.49639; -0.17667 The Geological Museum (originally the Museum of Economic Geology then the Museum of Practical Geology) was a museum of geology in London. It started in 1835,[1][2] making it one of the oldest public single science collections in the world. It transferred from Jermyn Street to Exhibition Road, South Kensington in 1935, moving into a building designed by Sir Richard Allison and John Hatton Markham[3] of the Office of Works[4] next door to the Natural History Museum - it now forms part of that museum.

  1. ^ F. H. W. Sheppard (ed.), Jermyn Street, Survey of London: volumes 29 and 30: St James Westminster, Part 1 (1960), pp. 271-284.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference desc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ John Hatton Markham – Dictionary of Scottish Architects
  4. ^ F. H. W. Sheppard (ed.), Geological Museum, Survey of London: volume 38: South Kensington Museums Area (1975), pp. 257-259.