Natural History Museum to overhaul dinosaur exhibit for new 'climate messaging' display

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The Museum volition rotation retired a caller grounds - Fixing Our Broken Planet - successful 2025 and the assemblage volition centre astir clime change.

22:29, Sat, Sep 14, 2024 | UPDATED: 22:32, Sat, Sep 14, 2024

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The dinosaur assemblage astatine the Natural History Museum volition beryllium overhauled (Image: Getty)

The Natural History Museum announced plans to overhaul 4 galleries - including the iconic dinosaur grounds - arsenic they adhd a imperishable show connected “climate messaging”.

The Museum volition rise £150 cardinal to revamp their programming and articulation “a planetary ngo to make 100 cardinal advocates for the planet”.

The restoration of the 4 galleries volition beryllium implicit by 2031 successful clip for the Museum’s 150th anniversary.

In the meantime, the Museum volition rotation retired a caller grounds - Fixing Our Broken Planet - successful 2025. The assemblage volition centre astir the clime crisis, with The Guardian reporting that it volition see “explicit clime messaging” that aims to alteration visitant behaviour.

The Museum volition besides revitalise 2 sealed exhibits: the Origins assemblage and the aged General Herbarium, the second having been closed since 1948.

Museum Director Doug Gurr said: “Since 2017 erstwhile we unveiled Hope the bluish whale diving done the bosom of the Museum, a awesome of humanity’s powerfulness to enactment for the planet, we’ve been moving hard to assistance radical recognize the value of looking aft the earthy world. In 2020 we declared a planetary exigency and our ngo to make advocates for the planet.”

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“This step-change from a catalogue of earthy past to a catalyst for alteration volition beryllium afloat realised arsenic our galleries present successful South Kensington are renewed and revitalised, powered by our scientists’ enactment to find solutions to immoderate of the biggest challenges we face.”

The Museum is making mode for the caller climate-focused worldly by relocating a 3rd of their earthy past postulation to a digitisation centre astatine the Thames Valley Science Park.

The Londom depository sees immense visitant numbers, welcoming astir six cardinal visitors past twelvemonth - and implicit 325,000 radical visiting the museum’s Titanosaur fossil.

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