In the middle of last year I visited Lightroom in Kings Cross to see The Moonwalkers. I loved it so much that I went back for a second helping and bought the soundtrack that accompanied it. When I saw that The Natural History Museum were offering a similar thing I was keen to give it a go.
It’s been a while since we’ve visited the NHM, ten years in fact, when we visited when they were still doing the late night openings. I wish that they were still available as it was heaving today with lots of school parties and tourists. Fortunately, we had a timed (and paid for) ticket for the event and didn’t really have the time for a look at the exhibits. A job for another day.
Like Lightroom, Our Story with David Attenborough is a large screen film projected onto four sides and the floor of a large-ish room. As the name suggests this one is about humans and the planet we inhabit.
It opens with a journey through space arriving at the Earth. It then explores the birth of life on Earth, the catastrophic events that set life back and then to the ascent of humans. Inevitably, it ends with the damage we are inflicting and whether we can pull back from the brink. Clearly this was not a script approved by Trump or Farage.
It was all very well done but wasn’t as slick as the Lightroom implementation and some of it was very obviously CGI which, for me, detracted from it a bit. That said I would encourage you to go as it is a fascinating story and Attenborough is as brilliant as ever. However, it’s not one for young children with so much talk to whole planet destructive events!