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London is currently in the process of getting all glammed up for the festive season. And it’s not just the city’s streets, trees and markets that are getting a sparkly Christmas makeover, it’s the big dinosaurs in the Natural History Museum (NHM) too.
NHM has just unveiled its winter display for 2025, and its famous animatronic T-Rex is sporting a giant Crimbo jumper. The museum’s dino has been dressed up in a jazzy jumper for the past four Christmases, with the tradition beginning in 2021.
Santa Jaws is now on show for all to see. The yuletide display is less heartwarming, and more horror movie, as it depicts the big dino clad in his jumper and Santa hat terrorising a town, surrounded by snowy mountains, trees and houses. As for the jumper’s design, we know this is what you’re all here for. This year’s jumper features a selection of the museum’s finest prehistoric specimens, including a T-Rex skull and ammonite fossil, with an illustration of the South Kensington building on the back.
The unveiling of the Christmassy T-Rex coincides with the museum’s festive merch sale. Visitors can now shop for their own Christmas jumpers, socks and scarves featuring this year’s design. For the first time, the NHM has made a jumper for dogs too. Adorable!
The range has been created in collaboration with NOTJUST, a UK-based social enterprise, using 100 percent organic cotton. All profits from purchases made support the museum’s charitable mission, including the work of its 400 scientists conducting research and finding solutions to the planetary emergency.
Covent Garden’s Christmas lights will be turned on for 2025 next week.
And Winter Wonderland returns to Hyde Park next week too.
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