We aim to provide a friendly, accessible environment for all our visitors and the widest possible access to our buildings, exhibitions and collections. Visitors with access requirements and their ...

Buy a trail sheet from our shop on the day for £1.

The UK Species Inventory is a database of all UK wildlife and it provides the taxonomic foundation for most biological recording and analysis systems. The Natural History Museum maintains this ...

The Museum's botany collection holds an estimated 5.25 million specimens of algae, bryophytes, ferns, seed plants, lichens and slime moulds from all over the world. The botanical collection spans a ...

Travel through 4.6 billion years of our planet's history and help protect its future. Snap a selfie with a piece of Mars, touch a fragment of the Moon and lay your hands on a meteorite older than our ...

In May 2013 a storm exposed mysterious hollows on the beach at Happisburgh in Norfolk. Follow the progress of the research team as they realise they have found human footprints that are around 900,000 ...

Some of nature's most unique and valuable treasures are on display in the Vault gallery. See the world's largest collection of coloured diamonds (they also glow in the dark), and marvel at rare ...

The museum’s mineral preparation laboratory prepares specimens from the collections for further analysis with SEM, geochemical and optical description ...

Following last year’s sell-out event, our New Year’s Eve: Party at the Museum is back! Make natural history with us as we celebrate the arrival of 2026. Standard tickets for this event are sold out.

Switch on and get down at the Natural History Museum's chart-topping silent disco. Choose your side as three DJs do battle over separate wireless channels, playing the very best songs, new and old.

Dark, dramatic and dead set on decomposition, soil is alive. Heaving with microbes, worms, fungi and insects, it’s a hive of activity right beneath our feet. Find out the dirt on soil’s drama. In just ...

Dive into hands-on activities to identify local wildlife, embark on family adventures, and contribute to vital nature monitoring projects. Discover endless ways to get involved and make your mark on ...