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Beautiful 18th-century paintings, drawings and contemporary art, including this watercolour of a Waratah flower from our First Fleet collection, showcase in Images of Nature’s new Australian exhibition.
Find out more about Images of Nature below.
The Museum offers visitors lots of free daily activities including films, tours, talks and shows, as well as its many gallery experiences and world-renowned specimen collections.
In addition, there are special exhibitions, events and displays at different times of the year.
You can find a complete list of what's on in our Events calendar.
Browse all our events in the Events calendar
Keep up to date at NHM_Visiting on Twitter
Need some suggestions for your visit? Have a look at these.
Gallery highlights
At a glance, discover all the bits no visitor wants to miss! All galleries are free with the exception of some temporary exhibitions.
Images of Nature
See our new temporary exhibition of Australian images and explore the Museum’s world-famous collection of natural history artworks.
Darwin Centre
Go on the Cocoon tour. Discover incredible specimens, exciting displays and shows, and see scientists at work.
Wildlife Garden
The Wildlife Garden is now closed for winter until 1 April 2012 but visits are available by appointment.
Special displays
Our special display cases house extraordinary and topical specimens. Currently we have an early human skull cast and Darwin's pet tortoise.
Daily activities and events
Choose from talks, tours, Explorer backpacks, or get hands-on in the Investigate centre.
Films at the Museum
Experience a range of exciting high-tech nature films at the Museum including our latest interactive film, Who do you think you really are?
What's new at the Museum blog
Keep up to date with all the latest events and news at the Museum and find out who's doing what behind the scenes.
Temporary exhibitions
Aged 18-26 with an original photographic vision? Submit your entry to the 2012 Eric Hosking Portfolio Award.
Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2011 exhibition
See the best photos on the planet in the 2011 exhibition. Entries for the 2012 competition close midnight 23 February.
Scott's Last Expedition exhibition
Explore the captivating story of Captain Scott's 1910-1913 Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica and experience life inside their famous hut.
Join in our Earth Debates
Happiness, health and wellbeing… should we measure these not just our Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
Watch our Earth Debate webcast live tonight on 22 February at 19.00 as the panel speakers and Attenborough Studio audience discuss GDP: how can we measure progress? This is the 2nd of 4 debates leading up to the UN's Rio+20 earth summit in June.
Join us on Twitter at #earthdebates on the night.
Discover the Museum at night
After dark this month we've got a great choice of evening events including our usual Friday late After Hours with MasterCard and a season of Scott evenings.