Natural History Museum unveiled it’s Cocoon of 34 million plants and insects

Natural History Museum unveiled new wing as part of its Darwin Centre phase two, which is design around an iconic eight-storey glass atrium encased like a Cocoon. As the Cocoon will be the home for the museums 34 million plant and insect specimens, as well as laboratories for up to 200 researchers, the cocoon will be temperature controlled.

This will be something quite spectacular for visitors when the centre opens in September 2009, visitors will be able to watch scientists in action cataloguing rare specimens.

The director if the Natural History Museum, Dr Michael Dixon said: “The Darwin Centre Phase Two will be a landmark new building that will allow visitors to explore the natural world in an exciting and innovative way – truly putting our science on view for the first time.

We can’t wait for the centre to be open, we have been following the progress and think it is something quite amazing, roll on September 2009.

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