Storm-Cloud: John Ruskin, climate change and the museum
by Chris Jarvis, Education Officer In a lecture in 1884, the Victorian art critic John Ruskin described a ‘plague-wind’ darkening Britain’s skies. After decades of looking closely at weather he believed that the atmosphere itself had changed, and that the smoke and ‘filth’ of industrial society formed part of the cause. His argument was urgent:.…
Out on a limb
The Undergraduate Bursary Scheme at the Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford provides UK students from underrepresented backgrounds with practical museum experience. Helena Rowlstone spent six weeks researching mammalian limb evolution, processing CT scans and creating 3D models. The placement strengthened her technical, analytical and research skills while confirming her ambition to pursue a…
A shark’s tale
Following the completion of our Life, As We Know It redisplay project earlier this year, we are taking a look at some of the exceptionally skilled people who helped to bring it all together. In this article, model maker Jeremy Hunt and our Vertebrate Palaeontology Collections Manager Emma Nicholls take a deep dive into what…
From Fossil To Flesh: Reconstructing a Phascolotherium
Taxidermist Alexandra Rose Cherrett tells about how she turned two squirrels into a reconstruction of a Jurassic mammal
A Botanical Journey In Time
I remember the exact moment I saw the message from the Museum of Natural History. I had just returned home from a trip, switched my phone back on after the flight, and there it was – waiting for me to jump into the unknown. It came at a time when my personal life was shifting…
Presenting ‘Life, As We Know It’Â
What a ride! It’s been about seven years in the making, but we have just put the finishing touches to our major redisplay project – Life, as we know it – which fully opened last week. If you haven’t been to the Museum in a while, now is a great time to come.Â
‘Deadly Six’ deinstall
Bethany Milne from the Museum’s Visitor Experience team has spent some time working alongside the Exhibitions team to deinstall a temporary art exhibition. She has reflected on the day – what she enjoyed and what she learnt along the way.
Oxford team’s fieldwork revealing how complex life first evolved on EarthÂ
By Ross Anderson In Summer 2024, a team of palaeontologists and geologists from the University of Oxford, along with colleagues from Dartmouth College, the University of Washington, and Williams College in the USA, undertook an expedition to the Little Dal Group in the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada. Our purpose was to uncover some of…
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