Not piccalilli. Not peccadillo. Not even Pickled Liver (though there might have been one). Thank you Siri and iphone autocorrect for...

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...

Last week I spent a couple of days at the Material Bodies conference, where archaeologists and historians got together to share 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...

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...

So this week, month, and some of this year, and years before, I have been contemplating art. In a classic photographic text, I came...

Quick blog post to say things are for sale. Specifically, a first opportunity to see and buy four limited edition images from my...

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...

A quick note to say, if you haven't been lucky enough to receive a panacea cure (available by post up until 2012) from the immortal...

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

Quick blog to say sorry for being quiet - I've been manning various events in the Cambridge Science Festival, and now am packing pictures...

What to do with your old cadaver? Find some thoughts here

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...

This week I had one of those light-bulb moments. Of course, it comes in the middle of relaxing in bed, which can be quite disturbing. But...