Scrimshaw whaling scene on coffin lid of a small bone coffin with novely skeleton, as typically found at auction. The underside of the...

About time I restarted writing my blog, as wix charge a couple of arms for it. The past few years I have been doing some very enjoyable...

April seemed to have been a good month for finding bird skeletons on Orkney beaches. I started the week with a casual "oh, that'll be a...

Informed consent, organ donation and ethical skeletons from 1961. I have recently been persuaded to restart Dying for Life activities,...

I won't even try to describe what events lead me to this little archive treasure. But it is one of those museum catalogue entries that...

It has been a crazy week of adventure, triggered by the deep dive into old museum inventories in the Cambridge University Library. Masked...

WHAT IS IT? Among a fairly random assemblage of dried bits and plaster casts of hearts, a crumpled brown leathery sack, stiff with age,...

DAMN YOU, FINNEMORE! That evil Genius, John Finnemore, has done it again. You may have thought that he was "quite funny" on Cabin...

It should not be assumed that, even in 1832, dissection was always an abuse. Wealthy, empowered members of society volunteered their bodies

Wombwell's travelling menagerie supplied unique animal specimens to various Zoology Museums including Cambridge, Norwich and Aberdeen

Happy new year! Happy new lockdown (I think we're on lockdown mark iii, but it is honestly getting hard to tell). What have you done so...

I wouldn't normally have any interest in a collection of tobacco and snuff tins going up for auction. One person's collection can be...

Just a quick blog post to share for Halloween. I've been learning how faces build on top of skulls, and as a quick exercise, tried it on...

Using photos of a collection, and a little negotiation with the photographer physically in the building, could remote volunteers usefully

Memento mori game. Any coin not found after 500 years is classed as lost - you lose points. There are other players, this is a competition

A tale of the memento mori coffins for the memory of Ben Huggins, and how often they seem to appear at auction!

Having had a couple of Emperor Scorpions as pets (“Grabbit” & “Scarper”), I was familiar that they glow eerily under ultraviolet (UV) light

Skeletons. So often a labour of love. But two years of work at the University of Cambridge Zoology Museum is finally ready to share

60 days of lockdown for most people in the UK. 69 days for me as a I started early. And just 6108 days into life with ME/cfs.

Lockdown week Twelvty. Just as there start to be discussions about easing restrictions, as I need to shield I realise that that doesn't...