Our Broken Planet: How We Got Here and Ways To Fix It

Visitors enjoying an interactive display as part of the Our Broken Planet exhibition

A new, self-build exhibition package is now available for museums and venues around the world.

The natural world is in crisis. As our demand for food, materials and energy soars, forests are becoming farmland, plastic is filling our oceans and the climate is heating up fast.

Explore why and how our relationship with the natural world needs to change with this engaging exhibit.

This exhibition explores the consequences of our actions and examines some of the solutions that could help mend our broken planet.

Self-build exhibition

The first exhibit in our portfolio to be 100% digitally delivered to licensees to build on-site.

The exhibition is provided as text, audio, video and image files (high-resolution photos of Natural History Museum collection items) and 2D design files including concepts for interactive displays. 

It can be presented as either a 2D panel display or a larger 3D exhibition that is produced in discussion with us, using your own collection objects or objects loaned from other institutions.

Key information

  • A flexible display that’s customisable to many spaces.
  • A sustainable exhibition with no transport emissions and no international transport fees.
  • Content, images, guidelines and graphics delivered electronically.
  • Tell local stories that resonate with your communities by adding your own content.
  • Inform and engage with science-based solutions to reduce human impact on nature.
  • Educate and connect with young people through interactives and interventions.
  • Empower your audience to take actions in the face of the climate emergency.

Contact us

If you are a venue interested in hiring and displaying this exhibition at your site, please get in touch with one of our Exhibition Partnerships Managers.

The exhibition in London 

Open to the public in 2021, the Our Broken Planet programme reached more than one million people through the physical display and online digital events. 

A photo of the Our Broken Planet exhibition in London
Visitors enjoying an interactive display as part of the Our Broken Planet exhibition
A photo of a display within the exhibition

Recognition for the Our Broken Planet programme

International Partnerships Manager, Camilla Tham, receives the Mariano Gago Responsible and Responsive award for the Our Broken Planet programme

International Partnerships Manager, Camilla Tham, receives the Mariano Gago Responsible and Responsive award for the Our Broken Planet programme at the European Network for Science Centres and Museums, Ecsite, conference, 2023.

Finalists in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Action Awards, 2022

Our Broken Planet was a finalist in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Action Awards, 2022. Here, International Partnerships Manager, Camilla Tham, and Creative Producer, Conor O’Keeffe, represent the Natural History Museum on the red carpet with the global finalists and winners. 

Photo credit: UNSDG Action Campaign/Benjamin Westoff

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