London’s Natural History Museum Is Opening up a Hidden Gallery for the First Time in 80 Years

London’s Natural History Museum is opening up a hidden gallery for the first time in 80 years

In what sounds like the start of an Indiana Jones movie, London’s Natural History Museum is cracking open a previously sealed secret gallery that has been off limits to the public since World War Two. Instead of secret enigmas, buried treasure, or soon-to-be-reanimated extinct species, the gallery will be showing a new exhibition, all about humans' relationship with nature. Called Nature and Us, the exhibition opens up on 16th September and will…

Natural History Museum to reopen hidden gallery after more than 80 years

A room inside the Natural History Museum that’s been closed to the public for over 80 years will reopen next month with its first new exhibition. The gallery as a herbarium store in 1950 (c) Natural History Museum The hidden gallery is just above the museum’s main entrance and, in size and location, is a mirror of the minerals gallery on the second floor of the museum’s main Waterhouse building. Historically, it served as both an osteology (skel…