Natural History Museum plans revamp to become climate ‘catalyst for change’

Four galleries to be overhauled and two more spaces to reopen, including Fixing Our Broken Planet exhibition

The Natural History Museum in London has announced a major programme of transformation it says will mark a step-change from being a catalogue of natural history to a catalyst for change" in response to the climate emergency.

The scheme to renovate the museum's celebrated Victorian building and develop a new research and storage facility will build on its aim to turn visitors into advocates for the planet", it said on Thursday.