Images of Nature

Images of Nature is a new permanent gallery showcasing the Museum's world-famous collection of natural history artworks.

Prints, watercolours and paintings from eminent natural history artists such as the prolific bird illustrator, John Gerrard Keulemans and accomplished botanical artist, Georg Ehret, feature in the collection.

Alongside this historic body of work are modern images created by scientists, imaging specialists, photographers and micro-CT scanners. Highlights among these are tiny, intriguing scientific images of stained-glass-like meteorite slices and a 3D scan of a shark head.

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Zoological drawings, including this ruffed lemur, from the 19th-century Chinese Reeves Collection feature in the Images of Nature gallery's first temporary exhibition.


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Exhibitions and events

Dinosaurs

Permanent exhibition

Meet a terrifying T-rex, unearth Baryonyx bones and inspect the Triceratops skeleton in our world-renowned Dinosaurs gallery. Sort the facts from the myths about why dinosaurs died out and delve into...

The Vault

Permanent exhibition

Highlights include a collection of 296 naturally coloured diamonds known as the Aurora Pyramid of Hope, Medusa, a giant, one-of-a-kind emerald from Zambia, and Tissint, a Martian meteorite that...

Cocoon

Permanent exhibition

Travel through the Cocoon experience deep into the heart of the collections to glimpse the working life of our scientists. See the previously hidden world of scientific research through viewing...

Images of Nature

Permanent exhibition

Indulge your passion for natural history, botanical illustration and scientific investigation. This permanent gallery showcases highlights from the Museum’s extensive collection of prints,...

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