Cromwell Road
LONDON - South Kensington, England, SW7 5BD

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The Natural History Museum in London is a natural history museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Natural History Museum's main frontage, however, is on Cromwell Road.

The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology and zoology. The museum is a centre of research specializing in taxonomy, identification and conservation. Given the age of the institution, many of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value, such as specimens collected by Charles Darwin. The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture—sometimes dubbed a cathedral of nature—both exemplified by the large Diplodocus cast that dominated the vaulted central hall before it was replaced in 2017 with the skeleton of a blue whale hanging from the ceiling. The Natural History Museum Library contains extensive books, journals, manuscripts, and artwork collections linked to the work and research of the scientific departments; access to the library is by appointment only. The museum is recognized as the pre-eminent centre of natural history and research of related fields in the world.

Pennymangle have managed to place three frame machines in the museum. The machines now take a contactless payment of £2.00 and roll pre-loaded pennies.
With all Pennymangle machines you should place the pennies with the head to the left for best results. Each penny has the N logo stamped on the reverse.

Machine 2: just outside the Creepy Crawly Hall.
1) ... Whale Skeleton (Hope)
2) ... Head (Charles Darwin)
3) ... Bird (Dodo)
4) ... Natural History Museum Building (Natural History Museum)

Machine 3: In the corridor of the Blue Zone. Just off the main hall, which contains the skeleton of HOPE, a blue whale. (Silver Discs pressed?)
1) ... Dinosaur (Stegosaurus)
2) ... Dinosaur (Diplodocus)
3) ... Dinosaur (Tyrannosaurus Rex) (
4) ... Natural History Museum Building (Natural History Museum)

Token Machine 1: Is available near the two remaining penny presses off the main hall.
Need scan/ photo of tokens, front and back, on a plain white background.

Bank Note machine 1: Is located near the bottom of the escalator.
Need scan/ photo of bank note, front and back, on a plain white background.

Souvenir note machine Is available near the two remaining penny presses off the main hall.
Need scan/ photo of bank notes, front and back, on a plain white background.

Retired Machines:

Retired 1: 1) Escalator (Earth Hall in Text), 2) Stegosaurus (Sophie Stegosaurus), 3) Volcano (Volcano), 4) Natural History Museum Building (Natural History Museum)
Retired 4: 1) Dinosaur (T-Rex), 2) Dinosaur (Triceratops), 3) Dinosaur (Giganotosaurus), 4) Dinosaur (Velociraptor)

Retired 5: 1) Natural History Museum', image of building.

There are 7 machines next door in the Science Museum

20 July 2025 - The price per design has increased to £2.00

18 May 2026 - Machine 1 appears to be gone or moved.
Machine 4 could not be located in the picnic area or otherwise.
Tokens (6T) and souvenir notes (12) are available near the two remaining penny presses off the main hall.
One bank note machine is located near the bottom of the escalator.
The machines are preloaded and only accept card payments.