Darwin conducted many experiments which often required simply making observations at home. The public were invited to follow in his observational footsteps, record their own ‘entangled bank’ as it changed through the seasons, see their own drawing skills and powers of observation develop and submit their work for display online.
Image credits: William Hart, Grey-Chested Bird of Paradise, Private Collection; Edgar Degas, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art; John Gould, Family of Hummingbirds, Daniel Giraud Elliot, Family of the Pheasants, John Gould, Family of Hummingbirds, Cambridge University Library; William Henry Simmons after Edwin Landseer, The Sick Monkey, British Museum; Edwin Landseer,