Natural History Museum

Cromwell Road
London SW7 5BD

020 7942 5163

020 7942 5537

d.a.smith@nhm.ac.uk

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MUSEUM/INFORMATION CENTRE

The National Building and Decorative Stone Collection contains 10,000 rough and polished samples which record the international use of stone over the past 150 years, facilitating the comparative identification and sourcing of replacement stone.

This collection is supported by the staff and state-of-the-art analytical facilities of the Department of Mineralogy at the Natural History Museum.