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Featured events and exhibitions

A boy and a girl hold hands laughing as they run towards the camera. They are in a Garden, running along a paved path. To their right and behind them are colourful flowerbeds with yellow and red flowers
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Gardens

Open daily, except 25 December
Alongside the Grasslands and Sunken Gardens are a number of other fields,…
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A bee hovers by a tall orange spike of flower made up of lots of tiny flowers. There is gravel and more plants in the background
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Grasslands Garden

Open daily
(except 25 December)
The Grasslands Garden celebrates critically threatened wild landscapes. It has…
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A brightly colourful drawing of a mask of a face, with mouth open and teeth visible.
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Always Part of the Story

On display daily
The Access Advisory Group is a diverse group of individuals with lived…
A large tutle swimming underwater in clear blue seas
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Green Turtle

Until Thurs 20 May 2021
Over 100 years old, this impressive animal was collected off the coast…
A man in a blue shirt jumps in the air holding a guitar. The Guitar is facing the camera.
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Ed Sheeran’s Guitar

Until April 2021
This guitar was played during Ed Sheeran’s 2015 North American tour promoting…
Four baskets with yellow baby tomatoes in the top two and red baby tomatoes in the bottom one
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Horniman Market

Sundays
The weekly Horniman Market is open to provide food items including fresh…
A white jellyfish is floating in a blue backed tank. They are domed with frilly fronds trailing behind them.
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Aquarium

Open daily
(except 24-26 December)
The Aquarium will reopen from Wednesday 21 October 2020. Tickets can be…
A model of a walrus standing on a yellow golf ball is in a garden golf course on a sunny day
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Plonk crazy golf

Open daily in Half Term, and weekends in term time
Plonk Golf is closed during the Lockdown. Grab a golf club and…
Black and blue hued image, xray of two skeleton birds.
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Falling Birds

Sat 19 September 2020 – Sun 10 October 2021
Falling Birds is a display by UK-based artist Helena Hunter, which illuminates…
Two black boys leaning back, seen from the side
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An Ode to Afrosurrealism

Sat 17 October 2020 – Sun 19 September 2021
Drawing from personal experience, mythology and symbolism, artists Hamed Maiye and Adama…