Not everything about space is true. Our planetary scientist is here to share the truth about popular celestial myths.

Book your tickets for our Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, which opens Friday 17 October 2025. In the image ...

Shifts in Earth’s climate and ecosystems will have untold consequences for billions of people across the world.

Wildlife Photographer of the Year has launched its sixty-second competition, calling for entries from photographers across the globe of all nationalities, backgrounds and experience levels.

Join us for a new family morning hosted by Captain Joe, our resident marine explorer, who’ll guide you through a series of ocean-themed activities. Junior oceanographers-in-training will begin with an ...

Pause, reflect and reconnect with the natural world through images that celebrate nature’s awe-inspiring beauty and urge us to protect it. Now in its sixth decade, Wildlife Photographer of the Year ...

Andrea Dominizi (Italy) finds a longhorn beetle looking like a guard observing an intruder. Andrea noticed this longhorn ...

Almost three quarters of all vertebrates that have been driven extinct by humans lived on islands. The majority of these ...

The Museum's botany collection holds an estimated 5.25 million specimens of algae, bryophytes, ferns, seed plants, lichens and slime moulds from all over the world. The botanical collection spans a ...

We aim to provide a friendly, accessible environment for everyone and the widest access possible to our buildings, exhibitions and collections. For more information about access, please call us on +44 ...

My research focuses primarily on the palaeobiology of the ornithischian (bird-hipped) dinosaurs. I work on the systematics and taxonomy of all major ornithischian clades, and have current research ...

Stegosaurus, Allosaurus and Diplodocus are among the Jurassic Period’s most famous faces. But how dinosaurs went from a small and unimportant group of reptiles to ruling our planet for millions of ...