Natural History Museum: Earth Hall HDR

I just back blipped yesterday (a female Mandarin duck at Kew Gardens).

This is the Earth Hall of the NHM. It is rather dramatic with sheer walls, a ceiling of glass panels, and an escalator rising up through a looming metal thing globe sculpture. In the foreground is the avenue of sculptures: each statue depicts a historical or mythical figure, and underneath each is a selection of artefacts and specimens (including the ammonite fossil from a previous blip: the scale is more obvious here...).
The left-hand wall is decorated with a vivid celestial map, and the lighting is quite satisfyingly dramatic (a dimly lit hall, with vivid colours highlighting certain parts).

HDR very much made this picture possible: I sometimes look at the resulting image and think, "Meh, what was the point of the multiple exposures; they didn't add much...", but then I refer back to the original single exposures, and there is little to no detail in the shadows, or the highlights are blown out, and the impact is gone...
I quite like the bustle in the picture; I could have taken it before the museum opened, but it seems to have added to the monumentality of the hall.