Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is a museum in the city of London and a setting in the Stoneheart Trilogy. It is where the book Stoneheart begins, and it is the place where George Chapman is introduced as a character. The museum is also where George begins his adventure.

History
The structure that exists today was built between 1873 and 1880. Its galleries cover a variety of subjects, including dinosaurs, volcanos and earthquakes, human evolution, birds, mammals, and space.

Some of the museum's most notable current displays include the blue whale skeleton, a Stegosaurus skeleton, the remains of a giant squid (kept in a tank in a basement level), and "Dippy", the plaster cast replica of a Diplodocus.

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Role In Plot
The Natural History Museum is where George is first seen with his class on a field trip. He leaves the museum after he is mistakenly punished by his teacher, Mr. Killingbeck. It is outside of the museum where George breaks the stone dragon's head off of a relief, and by doing so enters the other dimension of London. George is chased from the museum by a group of taints: a stone pterodactyl and three stone salamanders.