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Susan Elaine Jones
Jun 29, 20181 min read
Problems with primates
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
May 25, 20183 min read
Bulletproof Armadillo?
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Dec 17, 20163 min read
Who is the skeleton in Norwich Castle?
He (I am assuming it is a he) is easy to overlook. Many people wander by and don't even notice him. He is stealth itself, watching the...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 14, 20162 min read
Poo in a drawer
A couple of months ago I had a fantastic behind the scenes tour of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (and it is with their...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Aug 19, 20161 min read
Getting wet at OUMNH
After many hours scouring the databases and determining what was special about this museum's stores, I spent a wonderful morning...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jul 12, 20161 min read
Spin the skull game
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Jul 8, 20161 min read
Octopuses for sale
Look at these beauties! I think I'm in love! These gorgeous octopuses? Octopi? Octopodes? Beautiful aren't they? But they're in...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 2, 20151 min read
Behind the scenes at the Zoology Museum
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....
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 18, 20131 min read
More weird and wonderful
Another of the wonderful, imaginative anatomy preparations from the Horniman Museum. This is one of the series of animals (bat, hedgehog,...
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Susan Elaine Jones
Oct 11, 20131 min read
The weird and wonderful
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...
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