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Huge news, because the Natural History Museum (NHM) has just announced its first new permanent gallery since 2016. Punters will be able to visit the Fixing Our Broken Planet (no prizes for guessing the theme of the collection) gallery for free from April 3 2025.
A Sumatran rhinoceros, parasitic worms and whale’s earwax are just some of the items that will be on display in the collection, which will explore the biggest challenges facing our planet, and some of the solutions to overcome them. More than 250 specimens will be on show, and the gallery will highlight cutting-edge research into fungi, bacteria, mosquitos and more.
‘Fixing Our Broken Planet: Generation Hope’, the Museum’s free youth climate programme, will also make a comeback from April 20 to May 3, with a series of free workshops, panels and talks created in collaboration with young climate leaders from across the world,
Museum Director, Dr Doug Gurr, said: ‘Our scientists have been working to find solutions for and from nature. Fixing Our Broken Planet places this research at the heart of the Museum, allowing us to offer visitors positive ways in which they can act for the planet.
‘By combining the inspiring science and advocacy found in the gallery with the voices of Generation Hope changemakers, we’re showing that we all have the power to make change’
Arts Minister, Sir Chris Bryant, said: ‘To create effective lasting change for the planet we must inspire all generations. This new free permanent gallery, part funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, will showcase research from the brilliant scientists at the Natural History Museum, helping to educate, challenge and entertain the public on the natural world while demonstrating how we can all make a difference.’
The new gallery is the first thing to be announced for the NHM150 – the museum’s 150th birthday which will take place in 2031. Over the next eight years, NHM is also going to receive a massive £550 million makeover, reopening Victorian galleries which have been closed to the public for decades.
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