Natural History Museum wedding map print

It exists because Richard Owen, put in charge of the British Museum's natural history collections in 1856, argued they needed a home of their own. Captain Francis Fowke won the design competition in 1864 but died the following year, so Waterhouse took the scheme over, reworked it in his own style and built it between 1873 and 1880.

He faced it inside and out in terracotta, which stood up to the soot of Victorian London, and covered the tiles with plants and creatures: living species in the west wing, extinct ones in the east. Since 2017 the central Hintze Hall has been watched over by Hope, the 25 metre skeleton of a blue whale, which took the place of Dippy the Diplodocus.

The museum's central axis lines up with the tower of Imperial College, the Royal Albert Hall and the Albert Memorial, and the artwork follows that line north to the Hall, with Kensington Gardens just beginning at the top. The Science Museum and the V&A stand beside it on Exhibition Road, so the heart of the quarter known as Albertopolis is drawn around your pin.