Bespoke commissioned photography
If you can't find exactly what you're looking for online, why not try our bespoke photography service?
Our specialist photographers know our collections well and will photograph the items you've chosen to your exact specifications, giving you a unique image in the style of your choice.
The services we offer include:
- architectural views
- high magnification
- fine art photography
- live specimen photography
- studio photography
- specimen photography
- location/field work
Choose precisely what you want to be photographed from the Museum's vast collections. With more than 70 million specimens, from microscopic slides to mammoth skeletons, the Museum is home to the largest and most important natural history collection in the world. Our collections include almost all groups of animals, plants, minerals and fossils and range in size from cells on slides to whole animals preserved in alcohol. In total, there are:
- 55 million animals, including 28 million insects
- 9 million fossils
- 6 million plant specimens
- more than 500,000 rocks and minerals
- 3,200 meteorites
We also have the world's finest natural history library, with the largest collection of natural history library materials in the world including books, periodicals, original drawings, paintings and prints, manuscripts and maps.
Use the expertise of our photography team to commission a variety of imaging services, from bespoke photography of our specimens, collections and iconic buildings to shots of curators and scientists at work in laboratories, in the field and more.
To find out more or to get a quote for bespoke photography please contact us.
