# Natural History Museum, London **Domain:** Natural History / Biodiversity / Deep Time **Doc Type:** Institution Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[American Museum of Natural History]], [[Human Evolution]], [[Deep Time]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition The **Natural History Museum, London** preserves and researches collections spanning biodiversity, paleontology, mineralogy, taxonomy and Earth history. ## Corpus Context Natural-history collections are memory infrastructure for evolution. They allow changing theories to return to physical specimens, compare lineages and revise the story of life from durable evidence. ## Directory Context This institution is indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Natural History Museum, London](https://nhm.ac.uk/)