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Tag Archives: museum collections

Presenting… Christmas Island

17 January 2019by More than a Dodo Leave a comment

By Eileen Westwig, Collections Manager in the Museum’s Life Collections. About 320 km south of Java in the Indian Ocean lies Christmas Island. Although discovered and named on Christmas Day […]

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

Mammoth tusks and cocktail sticks

11 January 2019by More than a Dodo Leave a comment

By Pete Brown, Move Project Assistant As part of the Museum of Natural History Move Project Team I have helped move and repackage tens of thousands of specimens since 2017, […]

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Conservation, Documentation, Earth Collections, Life Collections, Stories from the Stores

Understanding beeswax

9 January 2019by More than a Dodo 1 Comment

By Tuuli Kasso, PhD in Science Fellow at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen. Tuuli is a visiting researcher, who has used the Museum’s collection to help […]

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Life Collections, 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

Why do we need pinned insect specimens?

26 July 2018by More than a Dodo 2 Comments

Since we posted about ten-year-old Sarah’s amazing beetle discovery, we’ve had lots of queries as to why the insect needed to be caught and pinned. It’s a question we’re often […]

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Learning, Life Collections, Museum FAQs, Research

Odd egg out

8 June 2018by More than a Dodo Leave a comment

This is a great time of year to hear the distinctive call of the Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) as it spends the summer in the UK. Collections Manager Eileen Westwig recently […]

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Life Collections, Spotlight Specimens

Seasonal sights

15 November 2017by More than a Dodo Leave a comment

The Museum’s collections are on the move. For decades, a deconsecrated church has been used to house material from our Earth collections, but we now have a new and improved […]

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Earth Collections, Stories from the Stores

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