Natural History Museum at Tring

Akeman Street
Tring
Hertfordshire
HP23 6AP
England

Website

NHM at Tring

www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/galleries/tring

NHM Bird Group website

www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/departments/zoology/bird-group

E-mail

tring-enquiries@nhm.ac.uk

Telephone

020 7942 6171

Fax

020 7942 6150

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Discover the fascinating range of animals collected by Lionel Walter Rothschild in our beautiful Victorian Museum. It is home to the world-class research and collections of the Natural History Museum's Bird Group

Venue Type:

Museum

Opening hours

Monday to Saturday 10.00-17.00
Sunday 14.00-17.00
The Museum is open every day except 24-26 December.

Admission charges

Free

Additional info

Wheelchair access is limited to the ground floor including the shop, café, Gallery One, and The Rothschild Room in which temporary exhibitions and special events are held.

Visit the galleries and come face to face with a full-sized gorilla, a huge anaconda or an extinct giant moa, just a few of the 4,000 animals on display!

The site of the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum is also home to the ornithological research collections (Bird Group, Department of Zoology) and the ornithological library (Department of Library and Information Services) of The Natural History Museum.

These collections are probably the largest and most comprehensive in the world, with over 2,000,000 skin, skeleton, spirit, egg and nest specimens, representing over 95 per cent of known bird species, housed adjacent to one of the world's great ornithological libraries. They are not open to the general public but, strictly by prior appointment, may be consulted by persons, amateur or professional, engaged in original research or the production of scientific artwork. More details are available on the NHM Bird Group and Library websites.

Collection details

Natural Sciences

Exhibition details are listed below, you may need to scroll down to see them all.

Blooming Marvellous

24 May — 31 August 2013

Discover beautiful images created by early botanical illustrators as they attempted to capture the colours and shapes of plants. See examples of preserved plants and find out how modern technology, including electron microscopy, is now used to record every detail of a plant’s anatomy.

Suitable for

Admission

Free

Events details are listed below. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all. For events that don't have a specific date see the 'Resources' tab above.

Grow a Picture

28 May 2013

Make a sunflower collage and take it home with you to see if it will grow. 30-minute workshops at 10.15, 10.45, 11.15,
11.45, 14.00

Suitable for

Family friendly

When

10:15am-2:30pm

Admission

£1.50, available on the day

Plants that Bite Back

29 — 31 May 2013

Plants can sometimes surprise you, especially if you’re a tiny insect. Make a snapping plant and insect from craft materials and see who eats whom for lunch.

Dates and times: 29 and 31 May, 30-minute workshops at 10.15, 10.45, 11.15, 11.45, 14.00 and 14.30