Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum
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Organisational profile.............................................................................................................3
Consumer trends.....................................................................................................................5
Sustainability..........................................................................................................................5
Financial operations................................................................................................................6
Governance.............................................................................................................................7
Key stakeholders....................................................................................................................8
Current issues.........................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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Organisational profile
The national history museum in the provinces of United Kingdom is a Natural History Museum
that exhibits wide range of various forms of segments of natural history. It has been identified
that this museum is one of the three major museums on the Exhibition Road in United Kingdom
South Kensington (Wetherley and Otter, 2014). This Museum is having unique collection that
attracts attention of number of visitors on an annual basis. In this Museum visitors can have
access of galleries and can effectively explore interactive experiences. It has been underlined that
the primary goal of this Museum is to exhibit community with historical as well as current
specimens of the research that help in effectively improvement of understanding of the natural
world. In addition to this it has been underlined that this Museum is basically a non departmental
public body which is basically sponsored by the department for digital, culture, media and sports.
Furthermore, more it has been underlined that the Natural History Museum is run by the director
Sir Michael Dixon. This Museum was established as a body corporate under the British Museum
act 1963. However when the Museum was formerly get separated from the British Museum
which has been a part since the Museum establishment in 1753. Along with it has been identified
that the Benevolent Fund was established by the British Museum trustee in the year 1936 on 14
March that has been passed to the trustees. The income is mainly utilised to assist members of
staff. In addition to this it has been identified that this Museum continues to be an inspirational
place for number of visitors all around the world. In this place they can explore the facility as
well as wonder of nature with events, exhibition and activities. Furthermore according to the
analysis it has been identified that this Museum is the world’s most visited natural history
museum, as its feeds on people curiosity with insight and stories from the world. It has been
identified that the Natural History Museum broke the five million mark with 5,303,859. However
due to Covid-19 this Museum was closed for 14 days earlier before pandemic due to safety
measures (Harris, 2015). However it remains in the United Kingdom top 4 visitor’s attraction.
This Museum is having number of exhibition such as The Wildlife of London, National assets,
Real world science, nationwide searchers, new fight for urban life and more. In addition to this it
has been underlined that in order to reach to the maximum numbers of visitors that museum have
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