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Featured events and exhibitions

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…
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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 and women dressed in blue wedding attire are embracing on a stage surrounded by dry ice around their feet. There are lights in the background
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Turn It Up: On Paradoxes

Until Sunday 4 October 2020
Turn It Up: On Paradoxes deploys a critical lens to explore the…
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…
An oil painting of Frederick Horniman sat at a desk
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Horniman’s Vision

Open daily
(except 24-26 December)
The displays include ancient pottery, European armour and items of natural history…
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
Grab a golf club and test your wits against a course featuring…
Black and blue hued image, xray of two skeleton birds.
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Free

Falling Birds

Sat 19 September 2020 – Sun 10 October 2021
Falling Birds is a display by UK-based artist Helena Hunter, which illuminates…
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,…