Morbid moths
Originally posted on More Than A Dodo:
There are many fascinating displays in the Museum, but there’s something special about meeting an expert and chatting to them about the collections they…
NatSCA Taxidermy Day
Last Friday I travelled to London to attend “Taxidermy: curation, care, context and creativity”, a day devoted to short lectures about taxidermy from a multidisciplinary approach. Speakers included taxidermists, curators, […]
Hoax or Joke?
I had a great day today training volunteers to work with digital and library sources to help them identify butterfly species they will come across when transcribing and digitizing information […]
11 Questions to a museum blogger
In case you’re wondering what Eleven Questions is all about, it all began when the Naturkundemuseum, in Berlin, started a blog chain with Jenni Fuchs from Museum 140. Jenni had eleven questions to answer, then pass […]
Moved to Oxford
Sorry about not updating this blog for a few months. The reason for this has been that I was offered a job in December 2013 as one of two Curatorial […]
Skin Deep
I’ve just come to the end of my time working as a volunteer on the “Skin Deep” Project at Leeds Museums Discovery Centre. The project involves the rearrangement and documentation […]
