SINCLAIR STAMMERS / Preserved Coelocanth (Latimeria chalumnae) on public display at the Natural History Museum in London, found originally off the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean. In life they are a dark blue colour w...

Konrad Wothe / Wooden hut of the polar explorer Sir Wally Herbert which was dismantled and transported to the Falkland island Museum, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Ocean. No release available.

Paul D Stewart / Restoration of the Iguanodon by Alice B. Woodward from Lydekker's The Royal Natural History' Frederick Warne and co, 1896. This is one of the first reconstructions to correctly show the Iguanodon's th...

Paul D Stewart / Male Large Blue Butterfly (Maculinea eutryphon / arion) collected in 1865. It is here surrounded by other extant UK blue butterfly species. The large Blue was first recorded as a British species in 17...

Paul D Stewart / Two species of weevil showing the size disparity even in single families of insect. The larger is the Bamboo weevil of East Asia Cyrtotrachelus dux, the smaller is identified (perhaps misidentified) o...

Paul D Stewart / 1853 illustration of Gorilla, contemporary coloured copperplate engraving from 'Das Buch der Welt' John Weik, Stuttgart. The lowland Gorilla was first accurately described outside Africa by the missio...

Sue Flood / Bamboo forest, Shikoku Mura open air museum, Takamatsu, Shikoku Island, Japan, May

Tim Laman / Ornithologist Brett Benz prepares a Huon Macgregor's Gardener Bowerbird (Amblyornis macgregoriae) museum specimen. At the Araurong field camp in the Sarawaget Range Indonesia, Dec 2006

Pete Oxford / Finch specimens at the Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, L to R Top: Large Ground Finch (Geospiza magnirostris), Woodpecker Finch (Cactospiza pallidu...

Pete Oxford / Finch specimens (Emberizidae) at the Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands

Juan Manuel Borrero / Egg-shaped sculpture balanced on roof and refelected in water at Salvador Dali's House-Museum. Port Lligat, Cap de Creus Natural Park, Gerona, Catalonia, Spain. March 2009.

Doug Perrine / Spermaceti candles made from Sperm whale wax, Whaler's village museum, Hawaii

Doug Perrine / Old bottle for Sperm whale oil, Whaler's village museum, Hawaii

Bristol City Museum / Queen Alexandra's birdwing butterfly {Ornithoptera alexandrae} museum specimens, male top, female below. World's largest butterfly, wing span 1 foot / 30 cms. Endangered species occurs in Papua New Gu...

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Barn Owl (Tyto alba) portrait against blue sky in desert, spring, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Arizona

Bristol City Museum / Great auk specimen - seabird hunted to extinction mid 19th century {Pinguinnus impennis}

Bristol City Museum / Dodo model {Raphus cucullatus} - flightless bird native to Mauritius, hunted to extinction.

Gavin Hellier / Guggenheim Museum, Bilboa, Cantabria, Spain

Gavin Hellier / World Ocean Museum, Soviet era submarine, Kaliningrad / Konigsberg, Russia 2008

Gavin Hellier / Frescoes in Goreme Open Air Museum's rock-cut Byzantine Tokali Kilise (Buckle Church), Goreme, Cappadocia, Anatolia, Turkey, 2008

Gavin Hellier / Piata Sfatului, the centre of medieval Brasov, the Council House (Casa Sfatului), from 1420 topped by a Trumpeter's Tower, this old city hall today houses the Brasov Historical Museum, Brasov, Transyl...

Gavin Hellier / Piata Sfatului, the centre of medieval Brasov, the Council House (Casa Sfatului), from 1420 topped by a Trumpeter's Tower, this old city hall today houses the Brasov Historical Museum, Brasov, Transyl...

Gavin Hellier / Piata Sfatului, the centre of medieval Brasov, the Council House (Casa Sfatului), from 1420 topped by a Trumpeter's Tower, this old city hall today houses the Brasov Historical Museum - illuminated at...

Gavin Hellier / Museum of Islamic Art, designed by the renowned architect IM Pei, this museum has the largest collection of Islamic art in the world. Doha, Qatar, Arabian Peninsula 2007

Gavin Hellier / Government Hill in Charlotte Amalie's historical district offers places to visit like the Government House, the 99 Steps, Blackbeard's Castle and the Haagensen House museum, St Thomas, US Virgin Islan...

Gavin Hellier / Cathedral Metropolitana and the Museum Historico Nacional in Plaza de Armas, Santiago, Chile 2008

Gavin Hellier / Elevated view at dusk over the Museum of Islamic Art and the Dhow harbour to the modern skyscraper skyline of Doha, Qatar, Arabian Peninsula 2011

Gavin Hellier / Elevated view over the Museum of Islamic Art and the Dhow harbour to the modern skyscraper skyline of Doha, Qatar, Arabian Peninsula 2011

Gavin Hellier / Art Science Museum and city skyline at night, seen from Marina Bay, Singapore, 2012

Sue Flood / Koi carp in the award winning garden in the Adachi Museum of Art, Japan.

Pat Tuson / Green roof on The Centre for Understanding the Environment (CUE) an eco building with cowls on the roof which incorporate a passive ventilation system. The Horniman Museum, London, UK

Pat Tuson / A Cowl which incorporates a passive ventilation system on the roof of the Centre for the Environment at the Horniman Museum, Forest Hill, London, UK

Pat Tuson / A Cowl which incorporates a passive ventilation system on the roof of the Centre for the Environment, Horniman Museum, London, UK

Pat Tuson / The Centre for Understanding the Environment (CUE) an eco building with cowls which incorporate a passive ventilation system on the roof. The Horniman Museum London, UK

Pat Tuson / The Centre for Understanding the Environment (CUE) an eco building with showing cowls which incorporate a passive ventilation system. The Horniman Museum London, UK

Pat Tuson / The Centre for Understanding the Environment (CUE) an eco building with cowls which incorporate a passive ventilation system on the green roof. The Horniman Museum London UK

Pat Tuson / The Centre for Understanding the Environment (CUE) an eco building with cowls which incorporate a passive ventilation system on the green roof. The Horniman Museum London UK

Pat Tuson / The Centre for Understanding the Environment (CUE) an eco building with cowls which incorporate a passive ventilation system on the green roof. The Horniman Museum London, UK

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Skull and skeleton of Aurochs (Bos taurus primigenius), found in Skane / Skayne, Sweden. From the Zoological Museum at the Lund University, Sweden. c 10000-7500 years old.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Skull and skeleton of Aurochs (Bos taurus primigenius), found in Skane / Skayne, Sweden. From the Zoological Museum at the Lund University, Sweden. c 10000-7500 years old.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Widstrand / Skull of Auroch (Bos taurus primigenius), found in Skane / Skayne, Sweden. From the Zoological Museum at the Lund University, Sweden. c 10000-7500 years old.

Mark Carwardine / Close up of Kakapo (Strigops habroptila) feather in a traditional feather cloak at the Te Papa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand

Mark Carwardine / Sperm whale skeleton in museum {Physeter macrocephalus} Maui, Hawaii

Konrad Wothe / Wooden hut of the polar explorer Sir Wally Herbert which was dismantled and transported to the Falkland island Museum, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Ocean.

Konrad Wothe / Wooden hut of the polar explorer Sir Wally Herbert which was dismantled and transported to the Falkland island Museum, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Ocean.

Paul D Stewart / A collector's case of British butterflies. There are some 59 breeding butterflies in the UK and four former breeders, as well as rare migrants like the monarch all the way from America, represented he...

Paul D Stewart / A collector's case of British butterflies with representatives of the major native groups (except skippers) visible. There are some 59 breeding butterflies in the UK and four former breeders.

Paul D Stewart / Tiger complex mimics, (Heliconids), an old collection of butterflies in the famous 'tiger complex'. This is a group of around 200 species of mostly toxic South American species which share a similar p...

John Waters / Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar, Arabian Gulf, night time, May 2011

Ann & Steve Toon / Two antique rhino horns mounted by renowned Victorian taxidermist Rowland Ward are found among a hoard of trophy animals in the attic of a Scottish museum, Scotland, UK, May 2012. Editorial use only

Wild Wonders of Europe / Möllers / Man displaying the fur of a Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in his small museum, shot in 1975 when it was still legal, Brzegi Dolne, Poland, September 2011, model released

Claudio Contreras / Submarine statues at the MUSA Cancun Underwater Museum, a conservation project to promote the growth of coral. Isla Mujeres, Cancun National Park, Caribbean Sea, Mexico.

Claudio Contreras / Cottonwick (Haemulon melanurum) fish among submarine statues at the MUSA Cancun Underwater Museum, a conservation project to promote the growth of coral. Isla Mujeres, Cancun National Park, Caribbean...

Benoit Stichelbaut / La Penfield Maritime prefecture and museum and Pont (bridge) de Recouvrance. Brest, France 2005

Benoit Stichelbaut / 15M Fife cutter "Tuiga" sailing past the Oceanographic Museum and Aquarium, at her centenary, Monaco Classics Week, September 2009.

Rick Tomlinson / Inside Grytviken Museum, South Georgia, February 2007

Rick Tomlinson / Looking out of the window of Grytviken Museum, which was established in 1992, at SY "Adele" anchored at King Edward Point, South Georgia, February 2007.

Benoit Stichelbaut / La Penfield Maritime prefecture and museum and Pont (bridge) de Recouvrance. Brest, France 2005

Pedro Narra / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) skeleton from 1890, Zoological Museum of Coimbra University, Portugal

Jean E. Roche / Gardener working amongst roses in the Botanic Garden with the Natural History Museum in the background, Paris, France, June 2010

Jean E. Roche / Fossil of trunk of Araucaria coniferous tree from 225 MA, Natural History Museum, Paris, France

Terry Whittaker / 2020VISION / Young woman cycling round Rutland Water, stopping to view the Normanton Church Museum, a deconsecrated church that was saved from demolision when the reservior was created. Rutland Water, Rutland, UK,...

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Wooden set gun trap used historically for Polar bears but now illegal. Longyearbyen museum, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, June 2006.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Stuffed Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) in Longyearbyen Museum. Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, June 2006.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Outdoor exhibits at the museum in Stanley, Falkland Islands, 2009.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Sign to the Falkland Islands Museum in Stanley, Falkland Islands, 2009.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Naval Museum of Caribe in Cartagena de Indias, a UNESCO World Heritage City. Bolivar Department, Northern Colombia, February 2011.

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Inquisition Palace and Cartagena Historic Museum, in front of Bolivar Square, in Cartagena de Indias, a UNESCO World Heritage City. Bolivar Department, Northern Colombia, February 2011.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Museum and cultural centre by the shore in Iqaluit. Nunavut, Canada, April 2008.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Museo del 'Fin del Mundo' (The Museum of the End of the World). Ushuaia, Argentina, October 2006.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Museo Yamana, the museum to the indigenous indians of the Beagle Channel region. Ushuaia, Argentina, October 2006.

Bernard Castelein / Nyapo 'the fisherman', mask used in Aji Lhamu dance. The hair is of a 'wild' sheep, called Raruk. Rupa Gompa Museum, Rupa, Arunachal Pradesh, India.

Nature Production / Iriomote Cat (Felis / Prionailurus iriomotensis) captive, Okinawa Zoo and Museum, Okinawa, Japan, Critically endangered

Peter Lewis / Royal Armoury Museum, Fort Nelson in snow. Fareham, Hampshire, January 2010.

Peter Lewis / Royal Armoury Museum, Fort Nelson in snow. Fareham, Hampshire, January 2010.

Tim Laman / Ornithologist Brett Benz prepares a Huon Macgregor's Gardener Bowerbird (Amblyornis macgregoriae) museum specimen. Araurong field camp, Sarawaget Range Indonesia, Dec 2006

Orsolya Haarberg / Dried fish hanging on the wall of the Stockfish Museum in Moskenes, Lofoten, Nordland, Norway.

Pete Oxford / Finch specimens (Emberizidae) at the Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands

Pete Oxford / Finch specimens (Emberizidae) at the Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands

Pete Oxford / Moth collection held by the Entomology Department at the Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos

Philippe Clement / The Colbost Croft Museum / Folk Museum showing nineteenth century Hebridean crofter's black house on the island of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK, May 2010

Philippe Clement / The Royal Research Ship "Discovery" made famous by Robert Falcon Scott's exploration to Antarctica, now a museum, Discovery Point, Dundee, Scotland, UK, May 2010

Colin Monteath / Iceberg in front of Port Lockroy base and museum, Wiencke Island, Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica

Flip Nicklin / Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) hanging from roof of the South Georgia Museum, South Georgia Island

Juan Manuel Borrero / Mummies of the Laguna de los Cóndores, dating back to the period of Chachapoyas culture. Leymebamba Museum. Amazonas Department. Peru October 2009

Juan Manuel Borrero / Mummies of the Laguna de los Cóndores, dating back to the period of Chachapoyas culture. Leymebamba Museum. Amazonas Department. Peru October 2009

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Mountain Lion (Puma concolor) peering from cave, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Arizona

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Building in the outdoor museum by Gammelstad. Lulea, Sweden, 2003.

Michele Westmorland / Church and museum, The Bottom, Saba Island in the Dutch Caribbean, Netherlands Antilles, West Indies. August 2006.

Juergen Freund / Octocorals collected and processed by Katharina Fabricius for the Queensland Museum collection with Merrick Ekins, Monika Schlacher and Trish Hendricks, Coral Life census, Lizard Island, Queensland, A...

Juergen Freund / Divers collect Octocorals for the Queensland Museum collection as part of the Coral Life census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008

Juergen Freund / Octocorals {Alcyonaria} collected for the Queensland Museum collection from the Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008

Juergen Freund / Sea fan {Gorgonacea} collected for the Queensland Museum collection from the Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008

Paul Hobson / Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) released adult at Lapwing nest, (Vanellus vanellus) UK - (set up using museum specimen eggs)

Jeff Rotman / Girl sitting beside image of Northern Clawed Lobster (Homarus americanus) currently over 100 years old and no longer on exhibit. Found in 1934 weighing 42.7 lbs, caught at a depth of 500 feet. Boston...

Hiroya Minakuchi / Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) female underside showing urogenital, anal and mammary slits with ventral fin, caught along the coast of Japan, courtesy of Taiji Whale Museum