Annual reviews

A staff member welcoming visitors to the Museum.

2024/2025 was a record-breaking year for the Natural History Museum.

In the year to April 2025, we welcomed more than 6.4 million people into our galleries and gardens.

We made great progress towards our vision of a future where both people and planet thrive. Our scientists have made valuable contributions to research and teams across the Museum have secured funding to safeguard our collections far into the future.

Highlights include:

  • We transformed our gardens into two outdoor galleries that tell the incredible story of 2.7 billion years of life on our planet.
  • We opened Fixing Our Broken Planet, our first new permanent gallery since 2016.
  • We described 190 new species, including a snake named after actor Leonardo DiCaprio, three dinosaurs and a pterosaur.
  • Research by our palaeontologists revealed the most complete dinosaur discovered in the UK in a century.
  • Our global touring exhibitions reached nearly two million people for the first time ever, with a remarkable 1.9 million recorded worldwide.
  • The Treasury approved the full business case for NHM Unlocked, confirming government investment of £201 million towards our brand-new facility at Thames Valley Science Park.
  • The Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology announced that we will lead DiSSCo UK, a 10-year programme to digitise a critical mass of the UK’s natural science collections.

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