Evolution Timeline, supported by Evolution Education Trust, leading into the Evolution Garden – photo © Kendal Noctor / The Trustees of The Natural History Museum / Feilden Fowles
Urban Nature Project, Natural History Museum
The Urban Nature Project is the Natural History Museum’s response to the growing pressures of urbanisation and biodiversity loss on people and planet. It aims to give people across the UK, no matter who they are or where they live, the motivation and tools to safeguard nature in towns and cities.
Change starts at home, with the transformation of the Museum’s five-acre gardens into a welcoming, accessible and biologically diverse green space in the heart of London.
The project transforms an underused garden into an urban oasis, telling the story of change on our planet over time. New areas of habitat allow nature to flourish, and create a living laboratory where scientists can monitor, record and study urban wildlife.
Feilden Fowles led the transformation of the gardens, working closely with landscape architects J & L Gibbons, alongside a multidisciplinary design team including Gitta Gschwendtner, engineers HRW and Max Fordham.
The design team have worked closely with the Museum’s scientists to sensitively develop a series of outdoor living galleries, providing opportunities to learn about and explore nature. Integrated within the landscaping are two new buildings: the Nature Activity Centre supported by AWS; and Garden Kitchen.
