Urban Nature 2025
The Nature Festival is back in the city
INFORMATION
WHEN
Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 October 2025
HOURS
See the programme for detailed times
AGE
From 3 years old
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Free activities in the outdoor area
WHERE
In the outdoor area
The event
Explora Museum welcomes back Urban Nature: the Festival of Nature in the City, an event promoted by WWF ROME and the Metropolitan Area, scheduled for Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 October.
In the museum’s green area, there will be two days of free admission with workshops and activities organised by Explora staff and WWF activists, offering insights into how to develop concrete actions to protect, enhance and increase urban biodiversity.
The programme
Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th October
Activities organised by Explora
Insects in the city: from flowers to fruit Thaumatrope on the theme of pollination, pollinating insects and day and night flowers. Discover how bees, butterflies and moths help flowers turn into fruit and vegetables, even among buildings and balconies. A fun optical illusion workshop featuring light flights and colourful flowers.
Free activity, no booking required. For children aged 5 and over, from 10:00 to 17:00.
Activity organised by WWF
Let’s colour wildlife: creative drawing workshop organised by WWF Rome and Metropolitan Area.
For children aged 3 to 11.
My bee friends: environmental education workshops dedicated to nature’s small but mighty friends.
Free workshop for children aged 4 to 10.
Saturday 4 October times: 10:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Sunday 5 October times: 10:30 a.m.
ALPA Beekeeping Workshops – Lazio Association of Beekeepers and Associated UNAAPI: stand dedicated to a multisensory introduction to the world of bees, suitable for both adults and children.
During the experience, you can explore and study different bee products such as wax and propolis.
ALPA beekeeping technicians are on hand to answer questions about the “bee superorganism” and to share their knowledge about the fundamental role bees play in pollination.
Throughout the day, there will be a sweet sensory journey in which tasters registered in the Register of Experts in Sensory Analysis of Honey will take you on a journey to learn about the various types of honey, discovering the correct method for tasting honey, its many organoleptic characteristics, properties and any defects present.
The event of Urban Nature
The Urban Nature initiative (visit the website) stems from the awareness that the climate crisis is having an increasingly dangerous impact on life in cities, putting safety, health and psychological well-being at risk. To address these changes, we need to rethink urban centres, integrating nature and infrastructure and promoting nature-based solutions that can mitigate the effects of climate change and promote biodiversity.
For this reason, the 2025 edition proposes an urban festival spread throughout Italy, a central event in Rome and a contest for schools, with the aim of spreading the culture of urban green care, stimulating shared actions between institutions, communities and citizens, and renewing the way urban spaces are designed and experienced.
The Urban Nature 2025 initiative has received the patronage of the Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Sicurezza Energetica (MASE), Associazione Nazionale Comuni Italiani (ANCI), Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Società Botanica Italiana (SBI) and Orti Botanici e Giardini Storici. The widespread festival will be organised in collaboration with the Carabinieri Environmental and Agri-Food Forestry Unit Command and the National Association of Scientific Museums (ANMS).