We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre.
We use the Museum's unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the world today. We care for more than 80 million objects spanning billions of years and welcome more than five million visitors annually and 16 million visits to our website.
Today the Museum is more relevant and influential than ever. By attracting people from a range of backgrounds to work for us, we can continue to look at the world with fresh eyes and find new ways of doing things.
We employ 900 staff in a variety of roles, all united by our vision of a future where people and planet thrive. We need everyone to have the passion and drive to help us with our mission to create advocates for our planet and inspire millions to care about the natural world.
Thriving at the Museum: the way we work
We are proud to work at the Museum and have identified the six qualities we all need to embody to reach our shared ambition. This sits alongside the Museum's values and forms the framework for the way we work.
Behind the scenes with our staff
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SpaceMeet a space researcher who's over the Moon about her work
Growing up in the Apollo era of the seventies, Prof Sara Russell fantasised about working on space missions.
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Patrick Campbell on being young and black in science
When Patrick started caring for the Museum's fish specimens, he became one of the institution's first black curators.
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CollectionsNadine Gabriel: studying 4.6 billion years of history
The face of modern science is young, black, female and ambitious.
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Women in science and research at the Natural History Museum
Female researchers are helping to answer some of the biggest questions about life on Earth.
