| SMITHSONIAN | (The) Washington history museum (11) |
| SLOANE | Irish physician whose 1753 bequest became the foundation of the British Museum and the Natural History Museum |
| HANS | Irish physician whose 1753 bequest became the foundation of the British Museum and the Natural History Museum |
| NATURAL | - History Museum; building forming part of a trio of popular tourist attractions in Kensington with the Science Museum and the V&A (7) |
| OWEN | Comparative anatomist and palaeontologist who coined the word Dinosauria and was a key figure in the establishment of the Natural History Museum in London (4) |
| WATERHOUSE | Architect who designed the Natural History Museum in London and the private chapel at the Duke of Westminster's home at Eaton Hall in Cheshire (10) |
| ZOO | The Natural History Museum is nicknamed the Dead ___. (3) |
| TACOMA | City home to the Washington State History Museum |
| BLUEWHALE | Growing to more than twice the length of a Tyrannosaurus rex and exhibited in skeletal form in the Natural History Museum in London, Earth's largest living animal (4,5) |
| HOPE | Name of the blue whale skeleton in the entrance hall of London's Natural History Museum (4) |
| HANOI | Home of the Vietnamese National History Museum |
| CURATOR | Expert at the Natural History Museum, perhaps? (7) |
| SKELETON | Small keen lot travelling to the National History Museum exhibit (8) |
| CHICHI | Giant panda formerly resident at London Zoo whose remains are exhibited at the Natural History Museum (3,3) |
| ALBERT | First name of Queen Victoria's husband after whom an area of London home to the V&A, Natural History Museum and an iconic concert hall is nicknamed (6) |
| ALFREDWATERHOUSE | English architect who designed the Natural History Museum in London (6,10) |
| SUE | Name of the T Rex at Chicago's natural history museum |
| FAME | Rock and Roll Hall of ___ rock history museum into which the Beastie Boys were inducted in 2012 |
| OMAHA | City that's home to the Great Plains Black History Museum |
| DOROTHEABATE | Archaeozoologist who was likely the first woman to work at London's Natural History Museum |
