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...

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...

I finally had the time, energy and a willing chaperone to be able to book a Pathology Museum event. Housed at St Bart's - which is famous...

Once, women’s problems were often ascribed to a ‘wandering womb’. The organ would go walkabout in the abdominal cavity, and as it bumped...

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

Looks like a normal X-ray of a normal torso doesn't it? Look closer. Okay, I see smaller creatures in there too. Swimming around. Wait,...

Which way does a chicken lay an egg? Little end first - and ease into it? Or big end first and finish with a relief? In the hopes of...

"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...

A friend has been trying to photograph water rail at the Great Fen. Not an easy task. Even the RSPB notes that they are difficult to see...

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

(Witch skull, Woolley and Wallis Auction House, Salisbury) It's not often that the usual run of skulls up for auction varies from the...

A number of friends shared this with me, asking if I was in some way responsible. (Those of you who don't know me might not be aware of...

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

After much searching of blanket boxes, coffins, wicker beds, I have finally found an appropriate and well sized box for the new skeleton....

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....