A new gallery at South Kensington's Natural History Museum will explore the biggest challenges facing our planet.
Opening on 3 April 2025, Fixing Our Broken Planet is the museum's first new gallery in almost a decade. The free-to-visit space is populated with over 250 specimens — including a Sumatran rhinoceros, parasitic worms and whale's earwax — each telling a story about our fragile relationship with the natural world.
The gallery — which will feature displays on how bison are helping to engineer forests in the UK to store more carbon, and how DNA analysis on mosquitoes is being used to fight malaria — is housed in a beautifully renovated, stained glass-punctuated section of the museum, which was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and opened in 1881.
Museum director, Dr Doug Gurr, says: "Our scientists have been working to find solutions for and from nature. Fixing Our Broken Planet places this research at the heart of the museum, allowing us to offer visitors positive ways in which they can act for the planet."
Coinciding with the new gallery, the Natural History Museum's Fixing Our Broken Planet: Generation Hope scheme returns from 29 April-3 May with a series of free workshops, panels and talks created in collaboration with young climate leaders.
Fixing Our Broken Planet, Natural History Museum, from 3 April 2025, free
