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Natural History Museum

#SciFri: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition has become one of the Natural History Museum’s most successful annual exhibitions, bringing together some of the most remarkable images of the natural world from across the globe. The 2025 exhibition (the sixty-first…

#SciFri: Pokécology at the Natural History Museum

From early 2026, the Natural History Museum (a place that I cherish) hosted a unique collaboration with The Pokémon Company centred on the concept of Pokécology. This event went beyond a simple retail pop-up as has happened at other museums,…

#MuseumMonday: Mourning the loss of the Human Biology Gallery at the Natural History Museum

I have had the opportunity to visit the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, multiple times over the holiday period and into the New Year for a couple of meetings. To me, the Museum stands as one of the world’s…

#SciFri: Visiting Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth? at the Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum’s new temporary exhibition, Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth?, is an exercise in carefully calibrated wonder. It arrives at a time when space stories are no longer the sole province of headline-making missions and sci-fi fantasies:…

#MuseumMonday: The River at the Natural History Museum

I was fortunate enough last summer to visit the Natural History Museum, while a temporary exhibition by Jana Winderen and Tony Myatt titled the The River was installed in the Jerwood Gallery. It was billed as being a mesmerising journey…

#MuseumMonday: Britain – One Million Years of the Human Story

If you read my previous post on Mammoths: Ice Age Giants, this one probably won’t surprise you. If you haven’t then let me bring you up to speed quickly. I recently stumbled upon an old memory card that I used…

#MuseumMonday: Mammoths – Ice Age Giants

While backing up a long-forgotten memory card recently, I came across some photos from a couple of old exhibitions at the Natural History Museum. The first of these is Mammoths: Ice Age Giants, which was available to visit between 23th…

#SciFri: Natural History Museum at Tring

If you have been keeping a watchful eye on my social media accounts, you may be aware that a couple of weeks ago I visited the Natural History Museum at Tring. I have spent a lot of time at the…

#MuseumMonday: Timeline of exhibitions at the Natural History Museum

Hopefully by now, regular readers of my blog will know that I am a huge fan of the Natural History Museum in London. I had been doing some digging recently, trying to figure out how many of the temporary exhibitions…

#SciFri: Titanosaur – Life as the Biggest Dinosaur

As you may have seen on social media recently, I visited the Titanosaur exhibit at the Natural History Museum, London with a few other likeminded individuals, thanks to the brilliant organising skills of James Pascoe (cheers mate!). For those of…