The semi-permanent gallery is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) with a grant of £1.64 million.
It will explore the biggest challenges facing our planet and will empower people to make a change.
Called Fixing Our Broken Planet, the gallery will open on 3 April 2025 and will be free to all visitors.
Caring for our planet
It will bring together pioneering research from the museum’s scientists, NERC-funded environmentalists and young changemakers on how to better care for the planet and its future.
Museum Director, Dr Doug Gurr, says:
Our scientists have been working to find solutions for and from nature.
Fixing Our Broken Planet places this research at the heart of the Museum, allowing us to offer visitors positive ways in which they can act for the planet.
By combining the inspiring science and advocacy found in the gallery with the voices of Generation Hope changemakers, we’re showing that we all have the power to make change.
NERC-funded scientists
NERC-funded research, including winning entries from NERC’s annual Impact Awards, will be displayed within the gallery.
Wellcome has also committed a £1.25 million sponsorship over the next five years to the ‘Our Health’ gallery space and other upcoming activities on climate change and its health impacts.
Professor Louise Heathwaite, Executive Chair of NERC, says:
The Natural Environment Research Council is pleased to support the Natural History Museum’s new permanent gallery, ‘Fixing Our Broken Planet’, with a grant of £1.64m.
The innovative new gallery will enable visitors to understand the biggest environmental challenges facing our planet and how we can address them.
It will highlight the incredible work of our scientists who are finding solutions for a sustainable future.
We are delighted to be partnering on this project, which demonstrates how positive action and the strength of working together are the key to protecting our planet.
Understanding environmental challenges
The Fixing Our Broken Planet gallery is in the original 1881 Waterhouse building, at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, which required full restoration.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) Public Bodies Infrastructure Fund awarded the museum with significant funding to rebuild the gallery while retaining its heritage and charm.
Arts Minister, Sir Chris Bryant, says:
To create effective lasting change for the planet we must inspire all generations.
This new free permanent gallery, part funded by DCMS, will showcase research from the brilliant scientists at the Natural History Museum, helping to educate, challenge and entertain the public on the natural world while demonstrating how we can all make a difference.
Inspiring new generations
A wide variety of trusts, foundations, companies and individuals are supporting the Fixing Our Broken Planet gallery and programme, including:
- NERC
- Wellcome
- GSK
- Ørsted
Find out how to see the new gallery at the Natural History Museum.
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