Bust

Charles Darwin bust

Inscription

{Inscription on the glass frontage:}
A plaster cast of Darwin was relocated from this window when the Grant Museum of Zoology was moved over the road.
Institute of Making members were challenged to create a new Darwin in any form or medium using data from a 3D laser scan of the original bust. This full sized resin version was milled using the massive robot arm "La Toyah" at B-Made, the CADCAM lab at the Bartlett.

This website gives more detailed information about the creation of the bust.

In 2011, the Grant Museum moved from its previous location in the Darwin Building, Gower Street, to the Thomas Lewis Room in the Rockefeller Building, University Street, formerly the UCL Medical School library.

Site: Charles Darwin bust (1 memorial)

WC1, Gower Street, UCL Biological Sciences Building

The bust is in a case on the right hand side of the entrance.

Professor Joe Cain has researched the history of this site, which includes Darwin's house, number 12 Upper Gower Street, and the house(s) where the Coopers lived, 90-94 Gower Street.

No plaque but Lady Diana Cooper moved to number 90 Gower Street with her husband, Duff Cooper in 1920, and then expanded into the first floors of numbers 92 and 94. They lived here until 1937, years that Diana considered some of her happiest. See her page for more details.

Professor Cain's aerial photo shows the site after war-time bombing.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Charles Darwin bust

Subjects commemorated i

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin, father of the theory of evolution and natural selectio...

Read More

Grant Museum of Zoology

A natural history museum that is part of University College London. It was es...

Read More

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Charles Darwin bust

Created by i

Institute of Making

A multidisciplinary research club based at University College London. Its wor...

Read More

Nearby Memorials

Moncure Conway bust - lost

Moncure Conway bust - lost

WC1, Red Lion Square, Conway Hall

In the early 1900s Moncure Conway retired to Paris, where he met and became good friends with sculptor  Spicer Simson, still in the early...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Knightsbridge - 1 - Edward VII

Knightsbridge - 1 - Edward VII

SW1, Knightsbridge, 55 - 91

This huge building, Grade 2 listed and in need of a clean, is actually 18 buildings behind a unifying facade designed by W. D. Caroe, in ...

1 subject commemorated
W. H. Smiths - WC2

W. H. Smiths - WC2

WC2, Lincoln's Inn Fields

There was apparently a bust surmounting this plinth with seat but - no more.

2 subjects commemorated
Caxton Hall - head 3 - Shakespeare

Caxton Hall - head 3 - Shakespeare

SW1, Caxton Street, 10, Caxton Hall

The foundation stone is low down at the right hand side of the building. Above each of the two statues is a bust, both of the Greek god v...

1 subject commemorated
King Lud - 2 entrances

King Lud - 2 entrances

EC4, Ludgate Hill

The two Leon doorways are each topped with this bust.

1 subject commemorated