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Category Archives: art

Writing from experience

22 January 2019by More than a Dodo Leave a comment

The Museum’s building and collections provide inspiration for scientists and artists alike, often acting as a springboard for the creation of new work. Following a year here as one of […]

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art, Earth Collections, Life Collections, Poets in residence, Visions of Nature

Imagining lost worlds

13 December 2018by More than a Dodo Leave a comment

Earlier this year University of Plymouth illustration student Rachel Simpson teamed up with our research fellow Jack Matthews to ‘bring the oldest multi-cellular organisms back to life’. Rachel tells us […]

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art, Earth Collections, Research, Visions of Nature

Bee beautiful

23 November 2018by More than a Dodo Leave a comment

Our conservator Bethany Palumbo tells us how she restored a beautiful 19th-century papier-mâché model of a honeybee hive, created by master model-maker and anatomist Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux Although the […]

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art, Conservation, History of the Collection, Life Collections, Visions of Nature

Bacteria: captured and cultured

1 November 2018by More than a Dodo Leave a comment

For our new exhibition, Bacterial World, we embarked an exciting science/art experiment to make visible the colonies of bacteria present on a wide range of our everyday items and belongings. […]

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art, Bacterial World, Exhibitions, Research

From pin to paper

9 August 2018by More than a Dodo Leave a comment

Katherine Child, image technician in the Museum’s Life collections, doesn’t just use photography to capture the beauty of specimens. She is also an artist and has been trying out innovative […]

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art, Life Collections, Visions of Nature

Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

5 March 2018by More than a Dodo Leave a comment

These are some of the big questions asked in our current special exhibition, Settlers. It’s also the title of a new artwork by Ian Kirkpatrick that has just been commissioned by […]

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art, Events, Exhibitions, Settlers

All that glitters…

17 November 2017by More than a Dodo Leave a comment

The latest display in our changing Presenting… series showcases some of the incredible colours seen in many insects. Zoe Simmons, collections manager in our Life Collections, explains how such wonderful hues are […]

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art, Exhibitions, Library and archives, Life Collections, Presenting...

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