| Description | In January 2008, following the submission of artists from 10 external nominators and the consideration of a
respected selection panel, the Natural History Museum invited 10 artists to help consider
responses to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection – the groundbreaking book that revealed his theory of
evolution by natural selection.
On 16 June 2008, a panel of experts will select one of the 10 proposals to become part of this historic building. The finished commission will be unveiled on 12 February 2009, exactly 200 years after Darwin’s birth. |