From chomping caterpillars to beautiful butterflies, the Natural History Museum comes alive this summer with a tropical butterfly house and giant outdoor maze.

Shrink down into the undergrowth, enter an interactive maze as a caterpillar and find your way through a secret, wild world as grass and leaves tower above your head. Choose the right route and emerge as a beautiful butterfly. But beware. The maze includes dead ends and down these lurk poisonous plants and predators waiting to pounce. With challenges around every twist and turn, collect stamps as you take on puzzles, fun games and exciting activities. For the brave, you can even take to the air and soar down our butterfly zip slide.

Along the way, you’ll discover fascinating facts about one of our planet’s most amazing life cycles. Find out why some caterpillars disguise themselves as snakes, and why the monarch butterfly flies 3,000 miles across America every year.

Once you’ve survived the maze, you’ll emerge into our stunning butterfly house. Experience the beauty and magic of walking among hundreds of free-flying tropical butterflies and come face to face with a huge variety of these incredible creatures, marvelling at the diversity and behaviour of species from America, Africa and Asia.