The Natural History Museum in Tring began as a private museum of the second baron of Rothschild, Sir. Lionel Walter.

The Museum, opened in 1892, is now under the control of the Natural History Museum in London but stands on what used to be the Baron's land. The latter was a great lover of science and zoology, so much so that he used to drive his carriage drawn not by horses but by zebras.

The Baron also bred a hybrid species resulting from the crossing between zebra and horse.

Its collection was donated years later, in 1937, by the Rothschild family to the state and is now one of the finest collections of stuffed animals, reptiles and insects in the whole of the UK.

The Natural History Museum of Tring is divided into six galleries, each dedicated to specific animals: starting from the first one, here there are birds, large carnivores and primates; in the second there are temporary exhibitions, in the third there are crocodiles, fish, crustaceans, insects, aquatic invertebrates, mammals; when you reach the fourth gallery you will find kangaroos; in the fifth the hippos and marine animals; in the sixth and last gallery there are reptiles of various species together with snakes, bats and small mammals.