What fits inside a travelling museum?
Feathers, seeds, insects, shells, fungi and fossils: 250+ specimens, packed to travel.
Look inside →
Ever wondered what bird that is?
This one is a Black Drongo, keeping watch from a twig by the water. Every bird has a name, a call and a story.
Meet the birds in the Nature Library →
What lives in the rock pools at low tide?
Zoanthids and a sponge share a crack in the rock, waiting for the sea to return.
Record the shore with us →What is the forest saying at dawn?
PittaKathalu listens round the clock and turns bird calls into a record of the life around us.
Meet PittaKathalu →
What's hiding in the leaves above you?
Every walk starts with looking up, and someone asking a question.
Bring a nature walk to your school →Nature is always telling stories. Are we listening?
A koel calling from the treetops at dawn. A line of ants carrying their eggs to higher ground. A crab's tracks fading with the tide. Every day the world around us is full of stories, and most of us walk right past them.
naturemuseum.in is a place to slow down, listen and look closely. Through travelling specimens, walks, field guides and citizen science, we help children and communities notice the living world, ask questions about it, and fall in love with the place they call home.
Ongoing projects
Seven ways we're bringing children, communities and the living world of the Eastern Ghats and coast closer together.
Nature Library
An open, growing library of species, field guides and learning resources from our bioregion.
- Birds
- Plants
- Fungi
- Insects
- Marine
- Mammals
A travelling museum of 250+ real specimens, fossils included, that sets up in schools, libraries and festivals. Children touch, sketch, ask, then head outdoors to find the living versions.
Capacity Building
Training and support for schools and organisations to weave nature education and citizen science into their curriculum and programmes.
Explore →Nature Education for Schools
Hands-on sessions, multi-day museum residencies and nature walks that turn the school campus into a field station.
Citizen Science in the Eastern Ghats
Farmers, students and villages in the Chintapalli hills recording the life around them, and turning what they find into evidence for their land.
Biodiversity Stories from the Field
Notes, sketches and photographs from walks, surveys and shorelines, told for curious readers of every age.
Read stories →Technology for Biodiversity
Frugal tools for listening to nature, like PittaKathalu, our round-the-clock bird-call monitor built on BirdNET.
Explore →Species of the day
Indian Chameleon
Chamaeleo zeylanicus · Telugu: ఊసరవెల్లి (Oosaravelli)
Each eye swivels on its own, the tongue shoots out to catch insects, and the curled tail grips like a fifth hand. At night it sleeps out on a twig, often paler than by day.