What's on at the Museum
Discover the Museum at night
Visit our Salgado and Extinction exhibitions and selected galleries, and enjoy food, drinks and live music in the Central Hall, at the next Friday Lates with MasterCard on 28 June.
Explore the galleries
Enjoy free daytime activities, exciting gallery experiences, and world-renowned specimen collections on your visit.
See the new rotation of artworks from India, including this stag beetle, in Images of Nature.
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Here are some suggestions for your visit.
Gallery highlights
Discover all the bits no visitor wants to miss! Galleries are free, except for temporary exhibitions.
Daytime events and activities
Choose from talks, tours, Explorer backpacks, or get hands-on in the Investigate centre.
Temporary exhibitions
Sebastião Salgado: Genesis
See epic photos of the remotest parts of our planet in this world-premiere exhibition.
Extinction: Not the End of the World?
Discover the survivors and lost species in the story of extinction and evolution.
June - July highlights
New on display, a decorated rough-toothed dolphin skull.
- Visit the never-before-seen dolphin skull on display in the Central Hall as part of First Time Out.
- Drop in to free daily Nature Live talks about everything from whale strandings to ants and termites.
- Explore Salgado's epic vision further at our Salgado-related events.
- Get close to nature in our lovely Wildlife Garden.
- And celebrate nature and biodiversity at our free fair on 13 July, Big Nature Day.