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% […]
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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 […]
Darwin, dolphins and a ‘Monkeyana’
The Museum is home to a vast collection of natural history specimens but is perhaps less well-known for its substantial art and object collection. This material became the focus of Charlie Baker […]
The bully bee
Young volunteers Genevieve Kiero Watson and Poppy Stanton tell the tale of the Museum’s resident Wool Carder Bee and their investigative bee work in our Life Collections… A small guardian patrols its territory […]
Beauty, strangeness and science
This year the Museum is playing host to three poets in residence as part of our Visions of Nature year. The poets, John Barnie, Steven Matthews, and Kelley Swain, have been working alongside staff in our […]
