Fantastic beasts in the real world and where to find them London's Natural History Museum is set to stage one of the most ambitious exhibitions in its history
The NHM has spied an opportunity to use the interest in the hugely popular wizarding chronicles to tell some stories of it own about the real world and conservation.
The exhibition puts 90 specimens from the museum's world famous collections next to 30 or so props from the Potter/Beasts movies. Interactive and immersive displays will essentially compare and contrast the different animals - the real from the imagined. "There are a lot of stories around the idea that perhaps manatees, or sea cows, were an inspiration for merpeople," says Lorraine. "There's a record by Christopher Columbus in the late 1400s, where he's on his first trip to the Americas and he notes that he saw three mermaids that weren't as attractive, possibly, as he's seen in drawings and paintings.
A good example is the kakapo, the ground-dwelling bird living on just three islands off New Zealand's coast. Hard work by conservationists continues to try to pull this animal back from the brink, taking numbers up from just a few tens of remaining individuals to a population today of a little over 200.
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