EXHIBITION ARCHIVE / Wild

The Wild exhibition at Manchester Museum featuring animal models of a mountain lion, bison, and other wildlife, with Yellowstone National Park scenery in the background.

Wild

5 June 2024 – 1 June 2025


Wild, was an exhibition that explored our relationship with the natural world and unique approaches to environmental recovery. Opening in June the exhibition looked at how people were creating, rebuilding and repairing connections with nature, and how we could tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis by making the world more wild.

 Visitors were introduced to five wild places across the globe and hear a diverse range of voices, from Aboriginal elders to researchers and community activists, to discover how they are all looking to ‘wild’ for a more positive future. In one case, the restoration of traditional practices in helping to heal both the land and the people. In others, biodiversity has exploded where farmland has been rewilded and the reintroduction of animal species is helping to restore ecological balance.

Interior of the Wild exhibition at Manchester Mu display featuring two taxidermy animal figures, a lynx on the left and a sheep on the right, with screens below.
Interior of the Wild exhibition at Manchester Museum with a mounted deer and various birds, under dim lighting; people observing and photographing the display; wall sign reading 'Knepp Rewilding Project'.