Odd egg out
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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Seasonal sights
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 […]
High time for a check up
by Bethany Palumbo, life collections conservator This month marks three years since the completion of our ‘Once in a Whale’ project. The initial conservation undertaken in 2013 focused on the cleaning […]
Stories from the Stores
by Hannah Allum, Move Project Manager Museums are space-hungry places. There’s rarely enough room to properly house the collections we currently hold, never mind finding space for new material. Roughly 90% […]
Paint it green
In the process of researching or conserving old pinned insects, it’s common to find a green deposit clustered around the pin. This is known as verdigris and is a natural […]
A rare beetles turns 21
by Darren Mann, Head of Life Collections Many years ago, when re-identifying dung beetles in the collections of the British Entomological and Natural History Society, I found a specimen that I […]
Solving a prickly mystery…
by Mark Carnall, Life Collections manager Visitors to the Museum often comment on just how many things there are to see here, but in fact only a small percentage of […]
