The Butterfly Wall

Choose an illustrated butterfly and personalise it with a message to be displayed on our new Butterfly Wall. Please note messages will be on the panels underneath and not on the butterflies themselves.

 As a Butterfly Supporter, your donation helps us to: 

• Care for our amazing natural history and archaeology collections  
• Create and host exhibitions that raise awareness of important issues that impact the natural and cultural world 
• Ignite the imaginations of children and young people through our award-winning learning programmes 
• Offer a warm welcome and engaging experience for all visitors.

Find our new Butterfly Wall in the Hancock Café on Level 1. To buy a butterfly in-venue, please speak to a member of our team.

Please read the Terms & Conditions before donating.

Please note the previous Butterfly Wall is still available to view in the Ground Floor rear corridor. 

Buy a small butterfly for £50 

Buy a medium butterfly for £75 

Buy a large butterfly for £100 

Buy an extra large butterfly for £250 

All donors will receive a thank you card which can be kept or passed onto the butterfly recipient. £250 donors will also receive a free A3 poster of their butterfly and message, and membership to our Supporters' Programme for three years.

Please also find A2 and A3 posters of our butterflies in the museum gift shop.

Butterflies bought online will be assigned randomly, but we will try to accommodate any requests made in the form.

Images from Hewitson, W. C., and Saunders, W. W., Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies, Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson (London: John Van Voorst, 1856). Courtesy of the Natural History Society of Northumbria Library Collection.