Coming to The American Museum & Gardens are 39 striking photographs with a wildlife theme. Here are intimate portraits of moments in time in the lives of creatures from mountain gorillas to deep-sea majid spider crabs.
The American Museum & Gardens is the first museum in the UK to host Unforgettable Behaviour, a specially curated exhibition celebrating exciting animal behaviour photography from the Natural History Museum’s popular and world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. This global show was previously hosted by The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, USA, and opens in Bath on 28 September.
The exhibition showcases 39 powerful photographs from previous Wildlife Photographer of the Year collections, displaying some of the most incredible animal behaviour moments ever captured on camera. The photos show an extraordinary range of surprising, and often deeply moving, acts by animals. They have been chosen to allow visitors to connect with animals they might never otherwise see, and to inspire everyone to care about the world around us.
The collection includes the works of several American photographers, with a total of 17 countries represented, and 35 award-winning photographers. US photographer, Karine Aigner’s winning photograph for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2022 – the remarkable shot of a buzzing ball of cactus bees spinning over the hot sand in Texas – will be on display.
At the American Museum & Gardens, the Unforgettable Behaviour exhibition will feature a range of creative family activities and invitations to play, as well as a Young Person’s Wildlife Photography competition open to all. Finalists will be put on display in the exhibition gallery for the public to vote for the winner.
In partnership with Bath Natural History Society, the American Museum & Gardens will be inviting families to a special Day of Nature on 22 September, one week before the exhibition opens, with activities all about the wildlife on the estate.
Unforgettable Behaviour, American Museum & Gardens,
28 September – 31 December; americanmuseum.org