Natural History Museum - Add some colour to your long weekend

Add some colour to your long weekend

Immerse yourself in our five-star exhibition Bask in a light installation created especially for the exhibition and count the animals in a spectacular tower of taxidermy -  showcasing the diversity of colour in the natural world. Discover over 350 rarely seen specimens from iridescent hummingbirds and jewel-like beetles to fossils of the first organisms with eyes. ★★★★★ Guardian ★★★★★ Time Out            Open all weekend and after hours on Friday at our monthly Lates Lead sponsor LG OLED TV

Watch the film Take a peek at some of the highlights of the exhibition. Bright and beautiful butterflies See hundreds of live butterflies in Sensational Butterflies. Watch as these colourful creatures flutter over your head, seek out a caterpillar and explore the plants in the lush tropical jungle. Until 11 September Dive into a coral reef Journey deep beneath the waves with David Attenborough's Great Barrier Reef Dive virtual reality experience. Immerse yourself in a rainbow of coral and darting shoals of tropical fish. Daily showings

Love a bank holiday but not the queues? Join as a Member to skip all the queues -  and get free admission to Colour and Vision as well as Sensational Butterflies. Members get a full year of great benefits including discounts in our cafés and shops, access to private views and behind the scenes tours.