Face to Face from the Natural History Museum features emotive portraits of gorillas, chimpanzees, orang-utans and bonobos and highlights the vitality and intelligence of these magnificent and threatened animals - our closest biological relatives.

Reproduced at over two metres high, each of the 30 photographs displayed tells a personal story and encourages us to consider our relationship with, and our treatment of the natural world. It does this by bringing us face to face with some of the individual animals that have been most deeply affected by the actions of humans. 

Natural History Museum touring exhibition.

EXHIBITION EXTRAS

Face up to Summer FREE
27 July - 27 August (Tuesday – Friday only)
Join us throughout the holidays for a summer filled with hands-on activities including arts and crafts and storytelling, all inspired by our temporary exhibition Face to Face and our exciting permanent collections.  Click here to take you Face up to Summer activities page

Most of these activities are drop-in sessions. No need to book but at busy times you may be asked to wait. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. 

In the Big Treetop FREE
17 July - 31 August
The Big Treetop is waiting to be discovered by children and their families throughout the summer. Search the Big Treetop to discover, create or become almost anything – this is a place where your imagination can take control!

In the Big Treetop continues the tradition of work strongly influenced by the Reggio Emilia approach to creative play, offering open-ended activities and encouraging choices. The exhibition is designed for adults with children under 8 years, with an added focus on under 3s. 

This is a drop-in event. No need to book but at busy times you may be asked to wait. Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Face to Face Flickr Group FREE
Ongoing

Keen photographer? Join us online and send in your pictures to our Flickr Group!

We will feature your photographs on a screen in the gallery for the duration of Face to Face!

We're hoping this group can be a place to explore the exhibition's themes and we'll accept photographs which fit into the following categories:

• human – animal relationships
• our relationship with the natural world
• animal portraits
• human and animal emotions
• apes