Ticket alert! Spend NYE at the Natural History Museum
A spectacular way to see in 2025.
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Fancy disco dancing your way out of 2024 amongst dinosaurs? How about ringing in the new year under Hope the blue whale?
The Natural History Museum’s New Years Eve celebrations are nothing short of legendary. Its biggest bash of the year is something every fun-loving Londoner should experience at least once (especially if you have even the mildest interest in the natural world).
There’s late night exhibition access, there’s live music, there are live ANIMALS (and some not-so-alive ones). Though frankly the venue alone is enough to reel us in — who doesn’t want to toast to a new year inside one of London’s most beautiful buildings, while surrounded by fascinating objects and extraordinary specimens from all over the world?
Tickets to New Year’s Eve at the Natural History Museum are on sale now, and you should expect them to be snapped up fast — last year’s event totally sold out. Click below to get yours now, or read on for a quick run-down of the night’s activities.
Get your groove on
It wouldn’t be New Year’s Eve without the chance to tear up the dance floor. At the Natural History Museum, you can take part in a silent disco, bop along to beats of a DJ, or really let loose with the help of raucous ten-piece brass band Old Dirty Brasstards.
Befriend some animals
Here’s something you won’t find in your local club this New Year’s Eve* — an exotic range of critters. Zoolab will be popping up at the Natural History Museum on 31 December. These animal handling experts work with the likes of leopard geckos, Giant African land snails, and (eek) Chilean Rose tarantulas.
*unless something’s gone terribly, terribly wrong
Explore the museum after-dark
Many of the Natural History Museum’s galleries will stay open late on New Year’s Eve. That includes 60th Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition and Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre, with entry to both included with your ticket.
All images © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London