A large wall-projected image encapsulates the story of life on Earth. In this panorama, the viewer can find out about the incredible variety of life forms in nature, from mighty oak trees to unicellular algae, butterflies, tigers, bacteria, all of which are the product of a long, long narrative that began more than 3 billion years ago. Like a huge family tree bringing together all the living things that ever existed, the different life forms appear with the passage of time. There are those that become extinct — dead branches — whilst others carry on the great adventure of life. All related, and all different. And the crown, the growth we see now, represents the biodiversity of nature as it is today. “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” C.R. Darwin, 1859.
