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

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...

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...

Last week I mentioned the great auk in Norwich Museum in their Natural History gallery. This week I was reminded of a exercise in writing...

I enjoyed a smashing visit to Norwich Castle Museum a couple of weekends ago. I spent much of my time in the Natural History Gallery. As...

D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum in Dundee is one of many museums on my bucket list to visit. It's not the best, or the most comprehensive...

Look at these beauties! I think I'm in love! These gorgeous octopuses? Octopi? Octopodes? Beautiful aren't they? But they're in...

So sorry for the terrible quality of the photo. But it was on a behind the scenes tour, at night, taken through the door of a freezer....

"When I die, place my body in the hands of an anatomist." I suspect that prayer is said much less often than it should be. And especially...

As I research my dissertation on art and anatomy, I am being very willingly forced to spend hours pouring over books of historical...

Reading about the history of anatomy, I have come across Museo La Specola! The Florence museum containing superb wax models of anatomy....

Another of the wonderful, imaginative anatomy preparations from the Horniman Museum. This is one of the series of animals (bat, hedgehog,...

Years after first hearing about it, the circumstances have come together that, next week, I will finally get to visit the Horniman...