Oxford University Museum of Natural History Blog
We have had the pleasure of hosting the brilliant Chris Packham at the Museum recently. He has been filming with the collections for a forthcoming series for the BBC. Keep an eye out for that. In the meantime, we chatted to Chris about our Goes to Town trail of specimens around Oxford city centre. He… Continue reading →
A new exhibition is opening up around Oxford city centre. While the Museum of Natural History is closed in 2013, some of the inhabitants have made their way to Oxford town centre. Find them all before January 2014, record their Danger and Rarity ratings and enter our competition at the Goes to Town website. The… Continue reading →
We’re planning something rather exciting starting this summer in Oxford. We may be closed, but if the town can’t come to the Museum, the Museum will have to go to the town… goestotown.com Watch this space for more and follow @morethanadodo. Scott Billings, Communications coordinator
It’s not often that one of our residents flees the roost to take up home elsewhere: usually once you’re in the Museum that’s it, accessioned for life (or, more accurately, death). However, one of our former dinosaur aisle characters is now looking for a new home… The four-metre long Utahraptor model has been with the Museum since… Continue reading →
As you can tell from the adornment of our Red Deer, Christmas is upon us, so it’s nearly time to bid farewell to another year. It’s been another remarkable twelve months here at the Museum so here’s a little round up a few highlights from 2015… As winter gave forth to spring News emerged of a… Continue reading →
By Monica Price, Head of Earth Collections Glowing from the success of our ‘Goes to Town’ and ‘Goes for a Pint’ events, which helped us win this year’s Museums and Heritage Award for best marketing campaign, we decided to ‘Go to the Festival’: the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival to be precise. Thousands of fossil collectors and… Continue reading →
If you live in Oxford or have been reading our blog for a while you may remember a project we created called Goes to Town: twelve specimens escaped from the Museum, set themselves up in locations around Oxford city and provided a treasure-hunt style trail around town. They then returned in time for our reopening party in 2014. It… Continue reading →
This is very exciting. We’ve been waiting to tell everybody for some weeks that we have been selected as one of six finalists in the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2015. It’s the top prize for a museum or gallery in the UK and we are delighted that the Museum’s work over 2014… Continue reading →
Regular readers of our closure blog, Darkened not Dormant, will know all about our Goes to Town project, where twelve plucky specimens escaped from the Museum for an eight month holiday in venues all around Oxford city centre. Like any good treasure hunt, the Goes to Town trail presented a competition which promised a valuable… Continue reading →
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