Horniman Museum

www.horniman.ac.uk | 100 London Road, SE23 3PQ

Horniman Aquarium Now Open 10.30am to 5.30pm. Last entry at 4.30pm

The Horniman Aquarium is ready to welcome visitors again. Entry to the Aquarium is limited to 10 people every 30 minutes and advance online booking is essential. Tickets include free entry into the Museum. Please go to www. horniman.ac.uk for further details and to book tickets.

Entry is free for Members, Benefactors and children aged under 3 but advance booking online is essential. GIFT AID TICKET

Child £3 / Adult £5 / Family £12 Gift Aid prices include an additional voluntary donation of at least 10% to help support the Horniman

STANDARD TICKET

Child £2.50 / Adult £4.50 / Family £10.50

Gourd Arch and Pumpkin Beds Daily Throughout Autumn

Falling Birds: Until 10 October 2021

This series of X-ray photographs and poetic texts by UK-based artist Helena Hunter highlights extinction and the alarming decline in bird species around the world. The works blend larger-than-life X-ray images of extinct and endangered bird specimens from the Horniman’s collection with fragments of poetic text and are displayed alongside taxidermy mounts of the birds that inspired them. Falling Birds was developed during Helena Hunter’s Artquest Research Residency at the Horniman FREE – included in pre-booked, free museum visit, book at horniman.ac.uk

This seasonal display of pumpkins and gourds – members of the Curcurbitaceae plant family – features large beds of variously-coloured and fantastically-named pumpkins including Queensland Blue, Japanese Black Futsu, Pacific Giant and Munchkin. Between the pumpkin beds is a beautiful archway where you can walk beneath bottle gourds, crown of thorns, swan gourds, dinosaur gourds and snake gourds.

FREE, NO PRE-BOOKING REQUIRED.