Darwin Today

Photo of Charles Darwin display

13 June to 26 July 2009

Free entry

Darwin Today is part of our celebrations for Darwin's 200th birthday this year. The exhibition features five groups of colourful graphic panels giving an insight into the huge impact of the great scientist’s ideas.

You can explore interactive games to find out about human origins and evolution in the future; Darwin’s impact on science in food, medicine, plants and animals, biodiversity and society.

The exhibition also looks at:

  • Extinction – what should we do about it?
  • Climate change and natural selection.
  • Economics – survival of the fittest?
  • Why have leaders evolved?
  • Is there life on other planets and what might it look like?

You can join in with free Darwin events and shows at the museum, so check our Darwin events page for more details.

There are more photos of the exhibition on our Darwin Today Flickr set.

An interactive shaped like a green tortoise

Shelly the tortoise - an interactive in the exhibition


This exhibition has been created by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council on behalf of the Research Councils UK.

Darwin200 events at the museum:

  • Now until 18 December, Darwin Discovery Trail: A fun quiz around our galleries. Look closely at nature like Darwin did, complete the trail and win a badge!
  • Now until 18 December, Voyage of the Beagle: A display in the Clore Natural History Centre exploring the people, places and species that Darwin encountered during his epic voyage of discovery on HMS Beagle.
  • 4 - 9 August, Darwin Happenings: Be informed, surprised and bedazzled by our time-travelled natural historians: Professor Rosa and Miss Daisy. With a comic song and a fascinating tale these quirky scientists will pop up in the most unlikely of places to explore all things Darwinian.

 

Elsewhere in the UK

Prescot Museum is currently displaying a large number of natural history specimens from our collections including shells, fossils, plants and creepy crawlies. This temporary exhibition is also part of Darwin200 and is on show until 19 July 2009.

For more information about national events, visit the Darwin200 website.

Darwin200

 

 

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