The Natural History Museum in London is an incredible building. It contains a vast number of brilliantly preserved dinosaur skeletons, plant and animal specimens and a huge array of creepy shark heads in jars.

The NHM functions not only as a window into the history -- and future -- of our planet for tourists and other curious members of the public, but its wealth of knowledge, gathered over hundreds of years, helps inform today's scientists from many backgrounds.

I visited the museum to see just what goes on behind the scenes. Click through to see how a Stegosaurus can be 3D printed, how scanning reveals the last meal of a deep-sea fish and find out why the museum wants to digitise all of its 80 million specimens.