First published 21 December 2020
The Natural History Museum is set to star in a brand-new four-part primetime Channel 5 series next year.
Natural History Museum: World of Wonder, will air weekly from 7th January, 8pm on Channel 5 and will be available to view on the video on demand player My5.
Channel 5 Factual Commissioning Editor Lucy Willis commissioned multi-award-winning production company The Garden Productions (24 Hours in A&E, Mars: One Day on the Red Planet) to make the series.
Lucy says: “In this series we go behind the doors of one of the greatest museums in the world. Every year, over 5 million visitors come to see its incredible collection: from extraordinary dinosaurs to giant whales, rare fossils to space rocks as old as the solar system itself, all looked after by its passionate staff. But visitors see only a fraction of the staggering 80 million items in the collection. Now our cameras have been allowed not just front of house but behind the scenes too, to capt