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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew vs Natural History Museum
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Natural History Museum are both rated very highly by professional travelers. Overall, Natural History Museum is preferred by most reviewers compared to Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Natural History Museum is ranked #4 in London with praise from 11 sources like goop, Lonely Planet and Atlas Obscura.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Kew Road, Richmond, Kew TW9 3AB
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Fodor's
"Enter the Royal Botanic Gardens, as Kew Gardens are officially known, and you are enveloped by blazes of color, extraordinary blooms, hidden trails, and lovely old follies."
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Frommer's
"It's essentially a vast scientific research center that also happens to be extraordinarily beautiful."
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Travel + Leisure
"Victorian-era greenhouses and the sprawling grounds overflow with 33,000 species of flowers, plants, and trees (the world’s largest living collection)."
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Time Out
"Kew Gardens is a magnificent World Heritage Site covering 300 acres with over 30,000 species of plants."
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"These botanical gardens host the largest collection of plants in the world, and visitors can eat up gorgeous assemblages of roses, orchids, and cacti (or be eaten up by the carnivorous plants)."
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Natural History Museum
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Natural History Museum Cromwell Rd London SW7 5BD
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"The ornate terracotta facade of this enormous Victorian museum is strewn with relief panels depicting living creatures to the left of the entrance and extinct ones to the right."
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Concierge
"This is just one of the three huge galleries (all free) off Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the V&A."
Time Out
"Both a research institution and a fabulous museum, the NHM opened in Alfred Waterhouse’s purpose-built Romanesque palazzo on the Cromwell Road in 1881."
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Let's Go
"Beeline for the back of the museum to see the unrepeatable Cadogan Gallery: a collection of British treasures."
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Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"Built by Alfred Waterhouse between 1873 and 1880 to a symmetrical plan, the building is 205m long with two 58m-high central towers above an entrance embellished by arches."
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