Placing Darwin into the heart of the Natural History Museum

摘要

In 2009, the Natural History Museum, London cel-ebrated the bicentenary of Charles Darwin and the sesquicen-tennial of his seminal work The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Section by commissioning a new contemporary art-work as a permanent insertion into the famous grade one listedWaterhouse architecture in South Kensington. This article explores the motivation and delivery of this extraordinary work and its deeper message for today and tomorrow.