Browse collections
From animals and anthropology to landscapes and minerals, the Natural History Museum Picture Library has an extensive image collection to meet your needs. To help inspire your search we have created galleries of our most popular content. If you need a specific image use the search box above, entering keywords or the Image ID number. Alternatively, please contact us to speak to one of our image researchers.
Anthropology
The origin and development of humankind, including fossil remains, tools and artifacts, and reconstructions illustrating the environment of early humans.
Animals
A range of fauna from mammals and birds to reptiles and insects, including images of specimens preserved in the Natural History Museum's collections and of wildlife in it's natural environment.
Plants
Plant life large and small, from algae to oak trees, palms to pollen grains, including superb botanical illustrations from our remarkable historical collections.
Dinosaurs & extinct species
A vast range of dinosaur reconstructions and fossils, including depictions of extinct plants and well-known extinct animals such as the dodo and the woolly mammoth.
Minerals
A collection rich in colour and texture, including images of rocks, meteorites, cut and polished gemstones and minerals in their natural state.
Museum
Our exhibitions and events, collections and displays and the architectural splendor of the famous Waterhouse building. The collection including images showing the diversity of our scientific work undertaken here and around the world.
Landscapes
Diverse and contrasting environments from deserts to rocky shores, mountainous landscapes to rainforests.
Picture Library
Image Resources
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