Two linked guided walks through the Natural History Museum’s new gardens.
The walks have been designed with blind and visually impaired audiences in mind but are a fascinating walk for all where you are taken through the gardens hearing from scientists, Museum staff and other experts about how the gardens were designed, and the stories held within, as well as 13 poems co-created for the walk by a group of blind and partially sighted young people.

The walk begins in the Evolution garden; beginning your journey in deep time, discover how life on Earth has evolved and changed. From the earliest, microscopic signs of life, through to gigantic plant-eating dinosaurs and onwards to the evolution of modern humans. If you listen to these tracks in order, this tour will follow a prescribed route and will take approximately 60 minutes. You’ll hear from scientists and other experts about how the history of our planet has been woven into the garden design, as well as poems co-produced with young people.

The second part to the walk then takes you to explore the Nature Discovery Garden, an area rich in habitats and home to an enormous number of species. What’s more, it’s an active area of scientific research which our scientists are monitoring and studying.

If you listen to these tracks in order, this tour will follow a prescribed route and will take approximately 60 minutes. You’ll hear from scientists and other experts about what’s going on in the garden, as well as poems co-produced with young people.