Welcome to the Natural History Museum's online Picture Library. We offer a comprehensive range of natural history images from the Museum's work and vast collections, which includes an incredible assortment of gems, minerals, mammal, reptile, fish, bird, plant and insect specimens gathered from around the world.

Our diverse library features unrivalled dinosaur pictures, images of human evolution, pictures of extinct species and remarkable fossil remains. We have extraordinary magnified views of life as seen through a microscope plus a collection of travel pictures taken as part of our scientists' fieldwork across the globe. We also hold one of the world's largest collections of natural history artworks, including original watercolour sketches from the Cook voyages, Waterhouse's designs for the main Museum building, and notebooks of key scientific discoveries.

The Natural History Museum picture library is a member of the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies.