The Natural History Museum announce after-hour events, tours and experiences for new family exhibition

Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth?

Blast off to the Natural History Museum for after-hours events, tours and experiences in the upcoming
gallery exhibition Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth?

From Friday 16 May 2025, the Museum’s newest exhibition Space will open to visitors for a once in a lifetime experience. Visitors will be able to wrap their hands around a piece of the Moon, feel a fragment of Mars and touch a meteorite as old as the
solar system. 

The new exhibition will also bring galactic after-hour events:

Space Odyssey at the Museum

Tour of Space exhibition

Space Night at the Museum

Dino Snores for Kids: Space Special

Those looking to take a trip to the skies and explore the stars and more can join the
Space
Odyssey
at the Museum
after-hours experience. On Saturday 31 May and Sunday 1 June 2025, families, with children of all ages, will sit down, look up and travel through the history of space exploration, from the first human
in space, to the international space station, and the universe beyond. Sophisticated computer simulations and specially formatted movies are projected throughout the inner surface of a dome to create a truly immersive experience. If a visit without the kids
sounds more up your street, Space
Odyssey at the Museum, is also offering an adult only experience on
Friday 30 May 2025.

Visitors who don’t want to miss a single detail in the new exhibition can join the special
Tour
of Space to discover why scientists are more optimistic than ever that the conditions for life could exist on other worlds. On 6, 15, 20, 28 June 2025,
a 45-minute tour of the exhibition will give guests an early morning glimpse, before the gallery opens to the public, into what enabled life to appear on planet Earth, including evidence of ancient life and how this helps the search in space. Available
for all ages, but perfect for ages eight and over, specialist tour guides will dive into why the search for life involves more places than you might think, what asteroids have to do with life’s origins, why scientists are looking at Mars’ ancient past, and
how life might exist on icy worlds.

Touch down at the Museum for the Space
Night at the Museum on
25 July 2025. Visitors over the age of six will have the opportunity to speak with scientists, see some stellar specimens, and visit the exhibition after-dark to learn about a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite and genuine moon rocks. After-hours access will
allow visitors to explore galleries and exhibitions like From the Beginning and Minerals, take on a Galactic Trail and test their knowledge on Meteorights or Meteorwrongs.

For an extra special late-night visit to the Museum, join the sell-out
Dino
Snores experience for a special space edition for ages 7-17, along with their adults, on
17 May 2025 and 4 October 2025. The Dino Snores for Kids: Space Special will see guests sleep alongside an unusual neighbour in the form of a 25-metre blue whale called Hope, explore galleries after-hours, get up close to weird and
wonderful creatures and explore how these animals aided space exploration. The British Geological survey will take guests through a live weather show, predicting the course of the stars live from the Museum’s theatre, while those looking to relax can join
in the artistic tote bag decoration workshop and create their own out-of-this-world bag. VIP (Very Important Palaeontologists) can upgrade tickets, giving them an exclusive camping area alongside Sophie the Stegosaurus, a free gift and a cooked breakfast.

Tickets to the exclusive Space events start from £10.80 per Natural History Museum member and £18.00 for non-members for
Space Odyssey at the Museum, and range to up to £150 for the Dino Snores for Kids: Space Special experience.

Tickets to the Natural History Museum’s exclusive events, are on sale now. Get your tickets now before they disappear at the speed of light and visit nhm.ac.uk to find out more.