Set in the Museum's west lawn, the Wildlife Garden covers one acre and recreates British habitats including oak and bluebell woods, marsh, ponds, hedgerow and grass meadows filled with Ox-Eye daisies and cowslips.
The garden is open for guided tours from April to October at weekends and in the school holidays. Enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of the countryside in the heart of London - dragonflies flitting across the ponds, hundreds of wild flowers, a tumbling waterfall with stepping stones and birds visiting or nesting in the garden.
The Wildlife Garden also acts as an educational resource for children of all abilities to experience and enjoy nature at first hand. School groups can book teaching tours as part of a trip to the Museum. A teacher's pack is available to enable teachers to make effective use not only of the garden but of any wildlife area available to them.
A team of Museum scientists and volunteers are also conducting a scientific monitoring programme of the plants and animals which colonise the garden. Details will be entered on a computer database. This is the first time that an urban wildlife garden will have been monitored in such detail.
