On Thursday 19 June, the Natural History Museum officially opens its doors to Our Story with David Attenborough, the Museum’s first-ever immersive experience.
Created by the award-winning production team at Open Planet Studios, the brand-new experience combines stunning animations and projections, real-world footage and full 360° immersion as master storyteller Sir David draws on his lifetime of exploration to tell the incredible tale of people and planet.
Sir David said: “In this new immersive experience at the Natural History Museum, we explore two stories – the 4-billion-year epic of the Earth, and our own, relatively brief chapter, the story of humankind. These two stories are not, at this moment, aligned – but they could be. My hope is that anyone visiting the Our Story experience will come to understand how important humanity is in writing the planet’s next chapter.
The 50-minute experience documents the captivating, interwoven tale of ourselves and our planet as never before, starting from Earth’s earliest beginnings. Enthralling visuals of our natural world will bring the Museum’s Jerwood Gallery walls and floor to life, with audiences encountering the emergence of Homo sapiens; our closest relatives, the gorillas; and discovering our impact on, and subsequent efforts to protect, the great whales of the oceans.
David Attenborough not only explores the impact that we are having on our planet but also takes us to a wonderful future in which we come to work with the Earth rather than against it. The experience is accompanied by an original score by Tony Award- and Olivier Award-nominated composer, Nick Powell.
