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May 9, 2024 · Five-acres of green space – featuring a Jurassic garden, living laboratory and evolution timeline – will open to visitors at the Natural History Museum in London on 18 July as part of its £3m Urban Nature Project.
Aug 5, 2024 · Planted landscapes are woven around a pair of timber-framed buildings in the Natural History Museum gardens in London, revamped by local studios Feilden Fowles and J&L Gibbons.
- Lizzie Crook
- Approved Plans For The Museum’s South Kensington Gardens
- Supporting The Urban Nature Project
- Other Key Features of The Urban Nature Project
- Architects
The new gardens will be a fully accessible green space and biodiversity hub in the heart of the capital. Museum scientists and external experts are working together to sensitively develop a project that will both protect and increase the biodiversity currently established. In just one acre of the five on site, examples of woodland, grassland, scrub...
The Museum is raising funds for the UK-wide project through donations and sponsorship. Progress to date has been made possible thanks to the support of generous funders with initial support* already secured from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, which is made possible by National Lottery players, as well as a wide variety of trusts, foundations, ...
· Provide opportunities for people to learn the skills to engage with and protect urban nature · Tackle the UK skills shortage in understanding and identifying UK wildlife · Expand the Museum’s outdoor learning programmes by 66%, reaching 6,000 students a year · Expand the existing volunteer programme from 30 to 100 volunteers, aimed at people from...
Leading the transformation of the Museum gardens is architectural studio Feilden Fowles, who are working with landscape architects J & L Gibbons on the ambitious project. Architectural drawings the team has developed for the project have this month been accepted by the Royal Academy as part of their Winter Exhibition,famous for showcasing the art o...
Feilden Fowles and J & L Gibbons have unveiled plans to overhaul the gardens at London's Natural History Museum to create a hub for education and biodiversity called the Urban Nature Project.
Sep 8, 2022 · Work has begun on the redevelopment of the Natural History Museum’s gardens as part of its Urban Nature Project. This is the first step in transforming the five-acre site into a free-to-visit green space in the heart of London.
Nov 15, 2023 · The £21 million museum project is transforming lawns into a tour through Earth’s natural history — and David Attenborough is a fan.
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The Urban Nature Project is developing new scientific tools and skills urgently needed to monitor, understand and protect urban nature. Our gardens are a hub for urban nature identification and field survey skills.
