Not just dino bones: the Natural History Museum is surrounded by good restaurants
(Picture: PA)North of Cromwell Road in South Kensington is a stretch of London known as Albertopolis, home to an embarrassment of edification: there is the Science museum, the Natural History museum, the Victoria and Albert museum — and then there’s the Royal College of Music and Imperial College London, too.
The land was purchased on the advice of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s consort, with profits made from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Poor old Albert died a decade later but his name lives on in the Albert Memorial, the Royal Albert Hall and the V&A, while the entire area is a monument to the Victorian belief in progress.
