Underground

A HUGE new underground attraction will open next year in a popular European city with immersive experiences and thousands of fossils.

The new Natural History Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark will open on March 6, 2027 after a huge project.

The biggest part of the £200million project is eight new galleries all underground.

The eight new exhibitions will be Universe, Earth, Life, Denmark, Arctic, Biodiversity, Humans, and Ocean Hall.

Light gets to the underground galleries through skylights and is designed to “engage all the senses”, according to the architect Lene Tranberg.

The new museum will connect the Botanical Garden – which sits above the galleries – the historic buildings and the new architecture.

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Inside the underground galleries, visitors can expect a concrete interior with curved staircases.

The museum is home to 14million items which have been collected over 400 years, such as fossils.

Included in the collection are a number of dinosaurs including a 17-metre-long Diplodocus skeleton and T-Rex skeletons.

Visitors can also try out interactive touchscreen tables where you can rotate and zoom in on 3D scans of specimens.

Plans for the new part of the museum were first revealed 17 years ago with building works starting back in 2019.

The original targeted opening date was in 2014, however this was delayed due to planning permissions and funding issues.

Christine Wiberg-Lyng, Foundation Director, Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond said: “The new buildings create a sensory and inviting setting that supports the museum’s core purpose.”

In the Botanical Garden, you will find a living museum with 13,000 plant species, alpine rock gardens and walking trails.

There’s then also the Palm House and Butterfly House which is inside a Victorian cast-iron glasshouse built in 1874.

Tickets to the Botanical Garden are free and tickets to the museum cost £13.22 per adult and £5.75 per child aged between three and 17-years-old.

In a nondescript black building in downtown L.A.’s Arts District, rich sounds of sax and bass filled the air for hours. Inside, surrounded by the paintings and posters of iconic musicians, albums and films, dozens of people gathered for a night designed to prove a simple point: You can’t “cancel” jazz.

On Thursday night, eight jazz artists and groups performed a pop-up show, including Okay Coleman!, the Don Brown Collective, Joy Guerilla, and Genghis Don, who also organized the event. All of these artists had one thing in common: They were billed to perform on the now-canceled inaugural L.A. Jazz Festival.

The planned 17-day event was supposed to kick off on Aug. 7 and feature dozens of performances spread throughout every City Council district. Organizers hoped the shows would draw 250,000 attendees and inaugurate the city as a home for jazz events on par with New Orleans and Montreal. The festival was to include a final show headlined by Janelle Monáe, John Legend, Charlie Wilson, Parliament Funkadelic and Raphael Saadiq at Dockweiler State Beach.

“When I got booked for it, I was really excited,” Genghis Don said. “It was one of the bigger festivals I’ve done so far in my career.”

Glen Turner of Joy Guerilla performs at the “Can’t Cancel Jazz” event Thursday.

(Brian Feinzimer / For The Times)

Then, the festival was abruptly canceled due to “last-minute public safety and municipal costs.”

But Don was determined for the show to go on. He partnered with Tída Norasingh of JIJI’s Jazz Club to host the “Can’t Cancel Jazz” pop-up show at Slow Jamz Gallery — a musical experience that was curated in less than 72 hours, according to Don.

“It all came together thanks to so many people who were involved in this,” Don said. “I really couldn’t have done any of this without them.”

The crowd, which leaned younger in part because the event allowed attendees 18 and older, trickled in around 7 p.m., and by 9 p.m., the party was in full swing. It was easy to see how audience members connected with the music by the way they cheered, danced and sang along through the night.

The pop-up show struck a balance between creating an accessible, music-forward environment for fans and providing support for the musicians who had been affected by the cancellation. The event’s entry fee was $20, while the nonalcoholic bar accepted additional donations. Some artists also had merch available for sale on site.

While “Can’t Cancel Jazz” may have been a response to the L.A. Jazz Festival being called off, it wasn’t aiming to replace it. Instead, the pop-up offered something more intimate. At times, the music overtook the gallery, completely captivating the attention of the room. At other moments, conversation and connection were happening right outside on the balcony between attendees, some of whom were meeting each other for the first time.

The result was something distinctly authentic with an underground quality that would have been hard to replicate at a sprawling, weeks-long festival.

“This was more so a test of L.A.’s community,” Don said. “They showed out, people came, the artists came together, and you know that’s the true definition of community.”