This is the story as told by an Entomology curator who works at the Natural History Museum in London and has seen many changes there over the last few decades. I have been a resident of the Old Entomology Block, the ex Waterhouse 'Origins Gallery' and now the new second phase of the Darwin Centre and I have witnessed the end of the Old Entomology and Zoology Spirit Buildings, the rise from the
... [Show full abstract] ashes of the new Darwin Centre and all the moves of Zoology, Entomology and Botany specimens and staff. The site of the Natural History Museum in South Kensington has always been short of space, constrained by the original, and now listed, Waterhouse Building finished in 1881. There have been many plans and some actual builds behind the World famous 205 metre long Waterhouse frontage, to try and improve collections storage and research facilities.