HE Natural History Museum would feature in most lists of London’s best-loved buildings. Less appreciated are the five acres of grounds extending across its front and around its east and west wings. That will change this summer, on the completion of a £21 million outdoor gallery outlining the story of life on earth and expansion of a one-acre wildlife garden, initially created on the west lawn in 1995. ‘Few national museums have this amount of outdoor space at their disposal,’ says Neil Davidson of landscape architects J. & L. Gibbons. ‘It’s also in a London district that has few green spaces not under lock and key, so its accessibility
