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On Thursday 19 June, the Natural History Museum officially opens its doors to Our Story with David Attenborough, the Museum’s first-ever immersive experience. Credit: Natural History Museum.

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00:00The Natural History Museum's new Our Story exhibition will open to the public on Thursday.

00:08This project has been produced by the award-winning filmmakers behind many of Sir David Attenborough's

00:16documentaries with the new 50-minute experience, blending footage of the natural world with

00:24cutting-edge animation to create something that the museum describes as truly special.

00:31Well, coming from the wildlife filmmaking background, we've tried to incorporate as much live, real-life

00:37footage of animals that we've gathered over the years in this show, and we've used a number

00:43of techniques.

00:44And I think my favourite is where we've totally integrated some real shots of a family of

00:49gorillas that myself and my crew actually shot about five, six years ago in Uganda, and we

00:56put them into what feels like a real forest.

01:00But it's actually been created by the wizards who are doing the show with us.

01:05So it can take audiences to the experience of being with a wild family of gorillas without

01:11actually having to get on the plane and going over there.

01:14And I guess David has a big heritage with that particular kind of encounter.

01:19One of his most famous sequences for life on Earth was when he met a troop of wild gorillas

01:26in Central Africa.

01:28And so we're leaning into that a little bit.

01:30That's part of the discovery that everyone can now have with us at our story.

01:35Well, the main idea with our story is that there are essentially two stories unfolding at

01:40the moment.

01:41It's a very long story, four billion years of history, which is our planet's story.

01:46And it's gone through various chapters.

01:48And then we relatively recently have come along as one species on Earth.

01:52But our story is pretty significant.

01:55And our story and our planet's story overlap.

01:58And I guess at the moment you could say that we're not necessarily on the same page.

02:02But what we talk about is how we get back in step.

02:05We're here today for the press launch of our story with David Attenborough, which is our

02:11new 360 degree projected experience in the Gerwood Gallery.

02:17It is narrated by Sir David Attenborough, an incredibly exciting project and epic in its suite.

02:25It tells nothing less than the story of our planet.

Our Story with David Attenborough to open its doors at the Natural History Museum

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