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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Esther Addley

Natural History Museum plans revamp to become climate ‘catalyst for change’

A bronze dinosaur outside the Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum recently redeveloped its outdoor space into two new gardens focusing on evolution and biodiversity. Photograph: Jonathan E Jackson/NHM/PA

The Natural History Museum in London has announced a major programme of transformation it says will mark “a step-change from being a catalogue of natural history to a catalyst for change” in response to the climate emergency.

The scheme to renovate the museum’s celebrated Victorian building and develop a new research and storage facility will build on its aim to turn visitors into “advocates for the planet”, it said on Thursday.

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