Natural History Museum - Coming to our gardens soon... a new dino-star

 

Our new dino-star We recently announced that Dippy, our iconic Diplodocus cast, is preparing to set up residence in Coventry. The Jurassic giant will head to the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum from Monday 20 February 2023 where it will remain in-situ for the next three years.    Dippy may be moving to Coventry, but the legacy will live on here at the Museum. We have a new bronze replica of Dippy being installed in our gardens, which are due to reopen in early 2024. Check out what the new cast will look like when it's in place and scroll down to find out how you could help name our new dino-star. Find out more about our Urban Nature Project Progress on construction Our gardens closed to the public in autumn 2022, and construction began in earnest towards the end of last year. Here's a quick overview of what's been happening on-site recently.      Piling excavations have started for our new Café on one side and our new Learning and Activity Centre on the other. A piling rig is being used for the foundations - you can catch a glimpse of it in action from Cromwell Road, it's currently working in the area where our new Café will be. Excavations are expected to be completed shortly, after which above-ground construction will start.     Excavations outside the entrance to the TfL subway tunnel continued with the removal of the steps from street level to make way for the step-free access and our timeline wall. These works will continue through February, as the excavations require careful hand digging around the historic London Plane tree root systems, which are very close to the path.     The excavations of the larger pond and wetland area also made significant progress in January, with the expanded area already exposed and the mapping out and digging of the sunken pathway to be established within the next two to three weeks.   Read more about our plans for our new gardens

Our community science programme gets a boost from AWS Our ground-breaking partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) is set to turbo-charge our community science programme. But what does this really mean and what's changing?  Find out more in our latest blog post here. Read our blog post here about changes to our community science programme What should we name our new replica? Want to help us decide what we should name our new bronze replica of Dippy, which will take pride of place in our finished gardens? Take part in this quick survey to share your thoughts! You can complete the survey up until 23.59 Sunday 19 February. Take survey   Support our Urban Nature Project Make your mark on our gardens by engraving your name on a railing, sponsoring a square metre of the garden or even writing a message on a bench. Add your name now and be part of history. Find out more