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...

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

Sorry it's been a while since I wrote a blog post - things have been going on with family. And I've been doing some drawing. And might...

Next week I'm displaying and doing a workshop at DDD14 (Death, Dying and Disposal at the University of Bath, 2019). So of course, I have...

Death Fest time is here again! Okay, so we never officially called it that. Instead, this month, I've been helping put the final touches...

As arrangements for the Dying for Life event "Things to do when you're dead"* are hotting up, I'm getting out and about talking to people...

This week I went to a talk at Zoology on Palaeognaths. (I spent much of the week guessing what Palaeognaths were... I knew I'd seen the...

Much belated post after cold and snot induced vertigo. A second time with bird skeletons in the Zoology Museum, so many more bird...

I've spent a lot of time in the Zoology museum this month, both front of house (helping people find things in the museum, including the...

This month I have been to a number of Death Awareness events: From Selfies to Runes, how do we want to be remembered? Face to Face with...

Today I am happy to share some animals from Conrad Gesner's "Icones Animalium". This delight from 1553 (reprinted in 1560 by popular...

How many woodcuts can a wood cutter cut if a wood cutter needs to illustrate a natural history encyclopedia? Okay, so it's a bad pun. But...

The Zoology Museum in Cambridge is now fully open! (Okay, that's been true for a couple of months, but I've been a bit run down and...

Also at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology this month (only till 23 September) are some original photos of the tomb of...

The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) has an exhibition based on the Star Carr finds. If you're not familiar with it, it is...

As I tidy my house (which is a fairly rare occurrence), I found a third drawing of the taxidermy cases of Ipswich Museum from back in...

As part of a couple of days working with the Museum Detox/Museum Remix teams, I finally made a visit to the Museum of Classical...

Having spent a lot of time in the newly re-opened Zoology Museum, I have recently been looking at Armadillos. Googling them, I see one of...

The Panacea museum. Where to start describing this... this... genius work of museum explanation text. Perhaps I should first state its...