Anna Gurney and the geology of the Norfolk coast
By Jenny McAuley Here at the Museum, we are exploring the often-hidden role of women in building, curating, and researching its collections, particularly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Supporting this project we have an invaluable team of volunteers who are helping to spotlight these women and their work. One volunteer, Jenny McAuley, has… Continue reading →
Iconotypes: A Compendium of Butterflies and Moths
Today, the Museum is celebrating the publication of Iconotypes: A Compendium of Butterflies and Moths based on William Jones’ unpublished, six volume manuscript. Danielle Czerkaszyn, Librarian and Archivist, tells us more about the importance of Jones’ work…… Continue reading →
The Geology of Oxford Gravestones
Our Earth Collections manager Duncan Murdock reviews ‘The Geology of Oxford Gravestones’ exhibition at the Weston Library in Oxford…… Continue reading →
Solving a celestial mystery: the Sun, Earth and Moon model
We like to think we know a lot about our collections, but every now and then someone gets in touch with a story about an object we know very little about…… Continue reading →
Celebrating 400 years of botany at Oxford University
As Oxford Botanic Garden celebrates its 400th anniversary, we explor our archives to highlight connections between the Museum and Botanic Garden over the years.… Continue reading →
Swift Inspiration from the Sky
Many of us at the Museum are inspired creatively, as well as scientifically, by the wonders of the natural world. So it is always uplifting to see that the Museum building and its collections evoke similar feelings in our visitors.… Continue reading →
The Continuing Importance of Corsi’s Legacy
Four Crowns is a studio based in Oxford which is dedicated to keeping the craft of scagliola alive. But what exactly is scagliola, and how does it relate to the Museum’s collections? Freddie Seddon, a University of Oxford Micro-Internship Programme participant at Four Crowns, tells more about this fascinating process… Scagliola is the technique of… Continue reading →
Tales of Iguanodon Tails
As one of our many invaluable volunteers, Leonie Biggenden has spent many hours beside the Iguanodon skeleton in the Museum’s main court, so she decided to go on the trail of its history…… Continue reading →
Revealing Exceptional fossils, one layer at a time
Around 120 years ago, William Sollas, Professor of Geology at the University of Oxford, developed a special technique for grinding down and imaging certain kinds of fossils. Sollas was based at the Museum at the time, and the process he pioneered is still used here today, as our Palaeobiology Technician Carolyn Lewis explains to mark… Continue reading →
A Swift Return to Summer
This morning, the 5 May and right on cue, we were treated to the first two Swifts performing a low, high speed fly-by of the tower…… Continue reading →
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More Than A Dodo 