Make your own Bug Hotel with the Horniman Museum

In the summer of 2009, the Horniman Museum and Gardens started work on a new Wildlife Garden which is now flourishing. It has been created as an outdoor classroom and an inspirational space containing lots of simple and fun ideas for attracting wildlife into green spaces. The minibeast hotel has proved the most popular feature and we have had lots of enquiries from people wanting to know how it was built.

We hope this video helps! The minibeast hotel is a one metre square structure made from old pallets and compost which we then packed with both living and non-living material to encourage bugs to visit for nectar, make their nests and spin their webs.