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...

Summary of the University of Southampton "Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies" conference 2018: Met some old friends, made some new...

It isn't long ago that I went to Norwich Museum for the first time. (Okay, it turns out it was over a year ago... not much happens in my...

Next in the amazing story of a trip to the Ipswich Museum. Part I (in case you missed it) is here. Here, I want to share just one of the...

I made a long anticipated, long overdue visit to Ipswich Museum. It is one of those regional treasures, crammed with original Victorian...

A belated write up of a lovely afternoon spent in the company of curious beasts at the Whipple Museum as part of Open Cambridge. These...

Blog been slow as I've been ill, and I've still got the wonders of the Open Cambridge display at the Whipple to share. But not today....

Okay, not really. I have spent most of my recent Friday's enjoying the wonderful Robert Lloyd Parry (of Nunkie theatre) performing...

A friend recently visited the USA, and did me the marvellous favour of going to the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City. She did a fair...

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

"Something entirely unique, something beautiful and charming and grotesque, perhaps a little more esoteric" was how was described to me,...

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...

Finally had the opportunity to spend some time with a camera in the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. I lingered at least...

Witch balls. Or did you think only wizards had balls? Well, honestly, witches don't have balls (that I know of). These balls are to repel...

Yes, Joanne Ebenstein is amongst the guests at the Wellcome Collection next week for an Anatomical Venus and other things morbid...

Made it to a little bit of science week. Which is really just an excuse to neb around Cambridge University buildings whilst snack vans...

Some bones just give you a look. It is often the primates, but some skulls seemespecially expressive, and just catch your attention. This...

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....

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...