Natural History Museum - Museum to star in new Channel 5 series

 

Museum to star in new Channel 5 Series Natural History Museum: World of Wonder will air weekly from 7 January 2021 at 8pm on Channel 5 and will be available to view on the video on demand player My5. Channel 5 Factual Commissioning Editor Lucy Willis commissioned multi-award-winning production company The Garden Productions to make the series. Lucy says, '...visitors see only a fraction of the staggering 80 million items in the collection. Now our cameras have been allowed not just front of house but behind the scenes too, to capture the incredible specimens and reveal the unique and rare pieces too valuable to exhibit.' Find out more  Explore our virtual exhibitions Fantastic Beasts: The Wonder of Nature Step into an online world full of fantastic real-life and magical beasts with Google Arts & Culture. Take a free 360° virtual tour of the exhibition and explore highlights, stories and games galore. Take a look   Wildlife Photographer of the Year Without even needing to leave home, explore some of the world's richest habitats, see fascinating animal behaviour and get to know some extraordinary species through the images featured in the exhibition. View the online gallery   Go on a virtual tour of the Museum Google Arts & Culture gives you access to 300,000 specimens within the Museum's collections, along with 14 digital exhibitions, virtual tours and an interactive gigapixel photo (so enormous you can zoom in on the tiniest detail) of Hintze Hall's gilded canopy. Start the tour

Stories from the natural world New mineral described Beautiful new emerald-green mineral described from Cornwall. Find out more >   Dinosaurs were doing well before the asteroid New research suggests that the dinosaurs were doing well, and in some cases even flourishing, before they were wiped out by an asteroid. Find out more >   Hayabusa2 returns precious asteroid samples The spacecraft Hayabusa2 is arriving back to Earth after six years' travel through the solar system. Find out more > Activities for families and kids   My Dino Mission AR A dino on your doorstep or a chick on your kitchen counter? Download My Dino Mission AR and snap a funny photo of the mysterious dinosaur at home to be in with a chance to win a family membership. App created by 42 Kids in partnership with the Museum. Download the app