This month marks 250 years since Captain James Cook and HMS Endeavour set off from Britain on one of the most important voyages of discovery. Almost 100 people circumnavigated the globe. They discovered more than 1,300 species previously unknown to Western science and mapped more than 8,000 kilometres of coastline including New Zealand and the east coast of Australia.
Five items from the Museum's collections have appeared on Royal Mail's new commemorative stamps, including works by illustrators Sydney Parkinson and Frederick Polydore Nodder.