Welcome to the Natural History Museum at South Kensington
Visit us
Open Monday-Sunday
10:00-17:50 (last entry 17:30)
Closed 24-26 December
Tickets
Book a free ticket or become a member for guaranteed entry.
At 17:00 each day, a limited number of tickets will be released for visits the following day.
Tickets are currently available for visits up to 26 July.
Transportation
By Tube
The nearest Tube station is South Kensington, about a five-minute walk from the Museum's main entrance on Exhibition Road. It services the District and Circle lines.
Gloucester Road station is about a 12-minute walk from the main entrance on Cromwell Road. It services the Piccadilly, District and Circle lines. This station has a lift but is not step-free.
By bus
Several bus routes stop near the Museum. Visit Transport for London's website for details. By car
We do not have parking facilities on-site and parking around the Museum is limited.
Disabled parking
We have a very limited number of parking spaces on-site for the disabled. Availability cannot be guaranteed. Please book in advance by calling us on +44 (0)20 7942 6230. You can access these spaces via Queen's Gate, SW7 5HD, to the west of the Museum.
We need your help
The Natural History Museum is a charity which relies on your support. And the Museum's role now is more important than ever. Our scientists are uncovering answers to big issues facing humanity and the planet, and together, we can tackle these challenges. So if you could help us with a donation-no matter the size-we'd greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
For years, Apple's business has centered around the iPhone, but sales of that once-revolutionary but now commonplace device have slowed. And the entire world of computers has been flipped (翻动) on its head. Apple has been diversifying beyond hardware, selling iCloud storage to its customers, a $10 a month music streaming service and movies and television shows through iTunes.
But Monday's concerned announcement takes that diversification to a whole new level. Apple said it was launching a lot of new services, from news to video games and a credit card. Its biggest project is entertainment streaming service Apple TV+.
Apple is expected to invest many billions a year, according to analysts, on making video content to compete in a crowded market that includes Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and Disney.
The real magic in consumer technology is happening less and less inside the devices people carry around and more and more in server farms scattered around the world, where massive amounts of data get processed and then transmitted to electronics like the Amazon Echo or Google Home.
In fact, the electronics people are excited about buying are becoming vessels for sending and receiving data. And in that area, Apple has fallen behind companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft, which now pull in significant revenue from selling cloud services, which is a fancy term for data center usage and storage.
The invite Apple sent to invitees said simply, "It's show time." The question now is whether Apple can break a leg.
Before audio (音频) playlists and before tape recorders, there were wax cylinders (蜡筒) — the earliest, mass-produced way people could both listen to commercial music and record themselves. In the 1890s, it was a great breakthrough. People slid blank cylinders onto their Edison Phonographs and recorded what was happening in their life.
Such wax cylinders were kept in the New York Public Library and it's possible to discover things that haven't been heard since they were recorded. They haven't been heard because the wax is so easy to break. The earliest, putty-colored cylinders deteriorate (变坏) after only a few dozen listens if played on the Edison Phonographs; they break if you hold them too long in your hand. And because the wax tubes themselves were unlabeled, many of them remain mysteries.
One of those important collections owned by the library is the "Mapleson Cylinders", a collection recorded by Lionel Mapleson, the Metropolitan Opera's librarian at the turn of the last century. Mapleson recorded performances — it's the only way listeners can hear pre-World War I opera singers with a full orchestra. Bob Kosovsky, a librarian in the audio division of the New York Public Library, said the Mapleson Cylinders "represent the first live recordings in recorded history".
Californian Nicholas Bergh, invented a machine called Dictabelt, which recently was acquired by the library. Thanks to the combination of its laser and needle, it can digitize even broken wax cylinders — and there are a lot of those.
It will take the library a couple of years to digitize all its cylinders. But when they're through, listeners all over the country should be able to access them from their home computers, opening a window to what people sounded like and thought about over 100 years ago.
When learning a foreign language, most people fall back on traditional methods: reading, writing, listening and repeating. But Brian Mathias' research team found out that if you gesture with your arms while studying, you can remember the vocabulary better, even months later.
As Mathias describes, they had 22 German-speaking adults learn a total of 90 invented artificial words over four days. While the test subjects first heard the new vocabulary, they were shown a video of a person making a gesture that matched the meaning of the word. When the word was repeated, the subjects performed the gesture themselves. Five months later, they were asked to translate the vocabulary they had learned into German. Those who performed better on the task showed a higher level of activity in their motor cortex — the part of the brain that is responsible for our body movements. The researchers concluded that the motor cortex contributed to the translation of the vocabulary learned with gestures. The effect did not occur when the subjects were only presented with matching pictures instead of gestures.
Another research group led by Leipzig had young adults and eight-year-old children listen to new vocabulary for five days, paired with matching pictures or videos of gestures. After two months, the two methods were still tied. But after six months, the adults benefited more from the gestures than the pictures, while the children were helped equally by both.
But it is not only the motor component itself that promotes learning. The meaning conveyed by the gesture also figures in. "I think we underuse gesture in our classrooms," Goldin-Meadow says. "Good teachers and good listeners use it, but not always in a systematic way. Others don't necessarily bring it into the class — and it could be used more often and more effectively."
Give with Love
Choosing a charity to support isn't as easy as picking one out of a hat. . Here are a few things to consider to help you choose.
What cause do you want to support?
Typically, the first thing that people think about when choosing a charity to support is the cause. There are children's charities, animal charities and charities that raise money and awareness for a wide range of illnesses, disabilities and issues. .
Do you want to support a large or small charity?
There are big name charities such as the Red Cross, SPCA and Barnardos., some of which work at a local level. Decide whether you want to contribute to a large and potentially powerful charily that will be making big waves but will have high running costs, or whether you want to support and contribute to a smaller charily that might only help a few people al a lime but will be fighting to get noticed and raise funds.
Find your reason
Once you have decided that you would like to give some of your time or money to help others, you need to make some decisions. For instance, volunteering., while others want to meet new people, Perhaps you have been affected by a particular charity supports, such as cancer or child abuse. Or perhaps you want to add your support to your local school which relies on parents and other members of the community to help children with their reading and maths.
Think about your existing skills: do you prefer hands-on work, are you good with people, do you have a background in administration or secretarial work? Charities need a wide variety of skills, such as working in shops, organising fundraising events, driving vehicles or. in the case of animal charities, walking dogs or checking out foster homes.
A. Location is important
B. Decide on the kind of work
C. There are also many smaller charities
D. Some people want to give something back
E. Think about which organisation's cause is dear to your heart
F. Larger charities will advertise vacant positions on their website
G. Your choice should be personal and your reasons unique to you
During the past few weekends, we held the first 24-Hour Play Festival on campus, the first event our society board has held.
The event started in the Playhouse Theatre at 8:00 pm on Friday with students who 1 to be either an actor, director, or playwright (编剧). Then the host 2 the theme of the event concerning the plays. Playwrights had 12 hours to write a 10-minute play based on the theme, which meant that they had to work all night because the scripts (剧本) were 3 at 8:00 am on Saturday. 4 received scripts and had 12 hours with actors to start their rehearsals (排练). Everyone would 5 at 8:00 pm on Saturday.
As a 6 manager, I had to make sure everything went well. It was really 7 because this was our first time. Students haven't 8 since the start of the pandemic, so it was 9 to see actors perform in the same room as the audience.
The performers did a(n) 10 job. I was amazed at the playwrights' beautiful scripts and the ideas they represented. Among those stories, there were many 11 including friendship, love and equality.
One of my favorite plays was about friendship. In the play, a girl and a boy haven't seen each other for a long time. One day, they meet 12. At first, they are 13 because they do not know where to 14. It was so real that it reminded me of my friend and me. When they talked about good memories in the past and 15 for the future, I was moved. They moved like birds on the stage, and my heart 16.
The actors were amazing. They had to memorize all their 17 in 12 hours. Directors also 18 great ideas in such a short time. I was really excited to watch the performances and be one of the staff. It was not easy to start from zero, but 19 there is a beginning, a story always 20. I learned a lot from the event.
Since tourism is influenced by a wide range of different activities and industries, all industry (category) and stakeholders such as tourists, governments, host communities, tourism businesses, need to cooperate on sustainable(可持续的) tourism in order to be (success) .
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), is the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of sustainable tourism, and the Global Sustainable Tourism Council(GSTC) have similar opinions what makes tourism sustainable. By their account, sustainable tourism should make best use of environmental resources while helping to preserve natural heritage and biodiversity, respect the socio-culture of local host communities, and contribute to intercultural understanding. (economical), it should also make sure viable(可行的) long-term operations will provide benefits to all stakeholders, whether that includes stable employment to locals, social services, contributions to poverty reduction.
The GSTC has developed a series of criteria (create) a common language about sustainable travel and tourism. These criteria (use) to distinguish sustainable destinations and organizations, but can also help create sustainable policies for businesses and government agencies. (arrange) in four pillars(支柱) , the global baseline standards include sustainable management, socioeconomic effects, cultural effects, and environmental effects.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last weekend, fifty volunteers from our school go to help promote garbage classification in Sunshine Community. Various activities held to spread the knowledge of garbage classification. After arrive at the community, we recommended the official account we created it on WeChat to local residents. Meanwhile, some volunteers put down posters and gave out brochures. Beside, we started to sort garbage in several trash can and collected recyclable waste from door to door. After a long day of hard work, the locals had a better insight into garbage classification but raised their environmental awareness with the help of us. Back to school, the organizer shared an event online to make it wide known.
