Dorothea Bate Room
The Club has a private store room that can only be accessed from the Dorothea Bate Room in the Palaeontology Department. This is where the slide collection and the archives are stored.
Meetings of the Quekett Microscopical Club in the Natural History Museum used to be held in the Dorothea Bate Room, but from 2014 onwards they have mostly been held in the PA 135 Meeting Room or the Angela Marmont Centre instead.
Directions from Exhibition Road
There is step-free access to the Museum from the entrance on Exhibition Road, and at busy times the queue can be shorter than at the main entrance on Cromwell Road.
Entrance to the Natural History Museum on Exhibition Road
After the detour for security checks, go straight ahead into the Museum.
Go through the area with black walls; you can walk to the left or right of the escalator.
Go past the dinosaur skeleton and the escalator
Go straight through the next area, Lasting Impressions, which has a door to the library on the right and a door to the British Geological Survey on the left.
Lasting Impressions: go through either door at the end and turn left
After Lasting Impressions, go left between the bird exhibits and go through the door at the end of the gallery; this leads into the fossil Ichthyosaurs corridor.
Bird Gallery: go through the door at the far end and turn left
When you turn left after the Bird Gallery, you will see the giant ground sloth; the door to the Palaeontology Department is just beyond the sloth.
The giant ground sloth and the door to the Palaeontology Department
Ring the white bell to the left of the door and someone will come and let you in.
The Dorothea Bate Room is on the left, just inside the entrance.
Directions from Cromwell Road
If you use the main entrance on Cromwell Road, go to the right of the big whale skeleton in the Central Hall and turn right into the fossil Ichthyosaurs corridor:
Fossil Ichthyosaurs corridor, running from the Central Hall to the Palaeontology Department
Go past the shop on your right and the restaurant on your left, and the entrance to the Palaeontology Department is at the far end of the corridor, just beyond the giant ground sloth:
Entrance to the Palaeontology Department, at the far end of the fossil Ichthyosaurs corridor
Ring the white bell to the left of the door and someone will come and let you in.
The Dorothea Bate Room is on the left, just inside the entrance.