The impressive Gaia Earth exhibition is coming to Lancaster from 25th June to 17th July 2022.

The touring artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram measures seven metres in diameter and has been created from 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the Earth’s surface.  It’s an amazing opportunity to see our planet floating in three dimensions.

The earth exhibition will revolve from the rafters of Lancaster Priory, during the 50^th anniversary year of NASA’s Apollo 17 mission which first showed earth to the world as a blue marble floating in space.

The artwork is 1.8 million times smaller than the real earth with each centimetre of the internally lit sculpture describing 18km of the earth’s surface. By standing 211m away from Gaia, visitors can see the earth as it appears from the moon.

As Gaia revolves, a specially made surround-sound composition by BAFTA award winning composer, Dan Jones will be heard alongside other musical performances.

To celebrate Gaia’s time in Lancaster, a Festival of the Earth is planned featuring a wide variety of events and activities on environmental themes. Lancaster Priory will host its own events programme with the festival spilling out around the church and castle area and potentially across the city and district too.