Natural History Museum – The Moon and Life on Earth

At the Natural History Museum, we have over 80 million real objects from nature! We study them to help us gain a deeper understanding of nature so we can protect our planet.

Join us at the Planet Positive tent to meet scientists and educators from the Museum to discover amazing ways that the Moon impacts life on earth and how we study moons from earth!

• Meet our scientists to learn how the moon affects animals, plants and their environments. Handle real museum specimens that reveal how light, the tide and time itself are influenced by the Moon.
• Challenge yourself… can you work out the Moon myths from the Moon facts?
• Discover the way that we research icy moons as far away as Saturn and Jupiter by looking at salt here on earth.

Explore the Fixing Out Broken Planet mini-gallery at the Battery of Ideas in Lowestoft town centre.

• Find out about practical, nature-based solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing the planet today. Visit to learn about what- farming seaweed, whale earwax, carbon pawprints, rubbish in bird nests, fast fashion and deep-sea fish – all have in common.

…And much more. See you on the beach (or at the Battery!)