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...

Today I saw a lovely, informative image from the Biologist's Apprentice on Facebook. Which made me realise that I would not normally have...

After many hours scouring the databases and determining what was special about this museum's stores, I spent a wonderful morning...

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

I love the Grant's Museum. And I love their blog. And this week, I love their specimen of the week. A jar of moles. I looked up the...

I never fail to be astonished by the weird and wonderful things out on display in museums that people don't even notice. And the infinite...