New exhibition at London Natural History Museum

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CARL Feb 12, 2014 13:13:39

Small article in today's Metro newspaper.

New exhibition - 1 million years of the Human Story.
Which opens tomorrow.

In the article is a photo of a reconstructed face of a 'human' who lived in Britain 600,000 years ago.

spencer Feb 12, 2014 15:08:51

Replying to CARL

There was a programme on Radio 4 about this that I gave the heads up for. Keen to go. So's tjj, iirc http://www.ahobproject.org/

thesweetcheat Feb 12, 2014 18:02:44

Replying to CARL

Ooh, good stuff. We'll be off to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition there sometime in March hopefully, so should be able to see both.

tjj Feb 13, 2014 14:00:26

Replying to CARL

Definitely got this one ear-marked for a later date - when the trains resume normal service.

thesweetcheat Mar 20, 2014 21:01:10

Replying to CARL

We went to this today, combined with a visit to the annual Wildlife Photography exhibition.

It's not a huge exhibition but very well worth going to see. Seeing the tools from Happisburgh, dating from incomprehensibly far back, brought a lump to my throat. The Paviland skeleton and finds are also on display.

The exhibition is particularly interesting because (being at the NHM) it focuses very much on the fauna of the time, hippos, elephants, lions, etc as well as the human species that first colonised Britain.