Wednesday 1 January 2014

Duke and Duchess join Attenborough for 3D premiere
Download the NHM Alive app
Top 10 science stories of 2013
Last chance to skate
Meet the great, great, great Britons
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Gift of the Month

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Duke and Duchess join Attenborough for 3D premiere
© Getty
© Getty
HRH the Duchess of Cambridge, Patron of the Museum, attended a premiere screening of David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive 3D in the Museum’s iconic Central Hall.

Tune into Sky 3D and Sky 1 HD at 18.30 on 1 January to watch Sir David bring his favourite extinct creatures to life. 
More information about the programme
Download the NHM Alive app
To celebrate the launch of David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive 3D on Sky, we've teamed up with Sky and Colossus to create an app.
Explore the Museum in Day mode or set off on a virtual safari in Night mode to watch amazing creatures come alive in ground-breaking CGI.
Download from the App Store from 2 January.
Download on the App Store 
Top 10 science stories of 2013
Freeze frame © Etienne Francey / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013.
Freeze frame © Etienne Francey / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013. 
From the weird to the wonderful, these are the top 10 most popular science and nature news stories from the Museum website in 2013.
Read the stories here...
Last chance to skate
Skate our 1,000-metre-square ice rink, then warm up in the Café Bar, which has been transformed into a cosy winter lodge. The Café serves food, hot drinks, mulled wine and cocktails, with an open-air balcony overlooking the ice.
Closes 5 January.
Book tickets to the Ice Rink
Meet the great, great, great Britons
Travel back in time and find out what life was like for our ancient ancestors, from the chill of the ice age to the time when hippos swam in the Thames. See incredible objects and rare fossils from our past, as well as lifelike models of a Neanderthal and aHomo sapiens.

Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story opens 13 February.
Pre-book tickets for Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Dive buddy © Luis Javier Sandoval / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013.
Dive buddy © Luis Javier Sandoval / Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013.
Charismatic animal portraits, dramatic landscapes and provocative photojournalism. The 100 breath-taking images in this year's exhibition raise the bar of wildlife photography once again.

Inspired to have your own image in the exhibition next year? Enter your photographs into the 50th Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition atwww.nhm.co.uk/wpy.
Book tickets for Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Gift of the Month
The Queen & Mr Brown: a day for dinosaurs

Enjoy an action-packed adventure of monarchical madness with this fun children’s book.

Join the Queen and her pet corgi Mr Brown on a day out at the Museum where they encounter giant skeletons, huge teeth and a thigh bone as big as Her Majesty.

A great gift to keep the kids entertained through the festive season and beyond. 
Buy the book online