Natural History Museum at Tring

The Natural History Museum at Tring was under the name of Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum until 1937, the private museum of Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild and is located on the grounds of the former Rothschild family seat in Tring Park, Tring, Hertfordshire in the UK. In this museum, which was opened to the public in 1892, Rothschild wearing his enormous collection of stuffed animals together. It houses a large extent by matching expert opinion one of the finest collections of stuffed birds, mammals, reptiles and insects preparations in the UK.

The museum is located on the Akeman Street in Tring, Hertfordshire, HP23 6AP.

The extensive collection, which is housed in several rooms, including extinct species such as the quagga, the thylacine, the great auk and reconstructions of moa and the dodo. Curiosities include hybrids and examples with an abnormal coloration. The dogs put on display were relocated after the Second World War from the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London in the Rothschild Zoological Museum. In this exhibition shows how domestic dogs by selected breeding change their shape. It includes Russian and Mexican lap dogs and greyhounds.

Financial difficulties forced the Rothschilds had in 1932 a large part of the collection at the American Museum of Natural History are sold. The remaining portion went in 1937 to the Natural History Museum over. In April 2007, the name of the museum in the Natural History Museum at Tring was changed.

The museum ornithological research collections are ( Bird Group, Department of Zoology ) and the ornithological library ( Department of Library and Information Services) of the Natural History Museum, but these are not open to the public. In addition, the British Ornithologists ' Union has its headquarters on the museum grounds.

There are year-round small thematic exhibitions, where exhibits are presented, which are normally not shown.

The museum is easily accessible by car. The nearest railway station is 3 km away from Tring. According to museum staff Rothschild did not want trains passing near him because of the train noise would otherwise have caused unrest in his menagerie. The eccentric Rothschild was known for having the museum back to the station covered the distance in a carriage that was drawn by a team of zebra. On Rothschilds love for zebras also points out the Zebra Cafe in the museum, are shown in the photos of trained zebras. Rothschild bred hybrid between zebras and horses ( Zebroide ). A stuffed zebroid foal is exhibited in the museum.

As Walter Rothschild as quickly collected new material that it could barely be edited, was from 1894 published until 1939 with the Novitates Zoologicae own scientific journal for the museum by Ernst Hartert and Karl Jordan, presented in which more than 1,700 scientific books and articles and over 5,000 new species have been described.

Gallery

Zebroid Foal

Great Auk

Tasmanian Wolf or Thylacine