2018

Due to forecasted strong winds the Natural History Museum including the Botanical Garden will be closed from 14:00 and the rest of the evening Friday September 21. 

Due to strong winds the Botanical Garden and the rest of the museum had to bee temporarily closed Friday August 10. The museum is now open again with normal hours. 

John Brittain at the Natural History Museum receives award for over 50 years of mayfly research. 

Visit our museum shop and buy a unique vintage weed chart, produced in the 1930s by Norwegian agronomist and botanist Emil Korsmo. 

Scientists recently discovered there is not one but four distinct species of giraffe, based on their genetic differences. These findings overturned century old accepted knowledge about a well known species, and may spur renewed efforts to save their threatened populations. Such "camouflaged" biodiversity – or cryptic species – may account for a substantial part of the world's biodiversity. However, searching for processes involved in "hidden" diversity is a daunting task, especially when no consensus even exist for what a cryptic species really is among researchers. A multidiciplinary team of scientists from the Natural History Museum in Oslo has taken on the challenge and proposes a new framework that provides researchers with common grounds in their hunt for biological processes underlying cryptic biodiversity.