BEES - A Story of Survival Exhibition, National Museums Liverpool - Opens 4th May 2024

The product of 120 million years of evolution and with 20,000 known species, bees are vital to our planet’s ecosystems and essential to human existence. In a unique partnership, World Museum, Liverpool and the award-winning artist and sculptor Wolfgang Buttress present the world premiere of Bees: A Story of Survival, an exhibition like no other. Using cutting-edge audio-visual technology, the exhibition explores the lives of bees from across the globe, transporting audiences into their fascinating world. Led by changing soundscapes by the Karman Line Collective, visitors embark on a journey through eight immersive rooms as sights, sounds, and scents bring our world to life from a bee’s perspective. In a hive-like space, audiences will engage with bees, through a live stream directly into the heart of a living colony. Using sounds and smells, audiences follow a trail from trees to wildflower meadows, highlighting the impact of bees as pollinators on the natural world.  A fusion of art, science and technology will bring to life what it is like to see and hear like a bee, before dramatically plunging visitors into a world without bees and the devastating impact that would have on our planet.