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...

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,...

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...

20 years on from Jurassic Park, Jurassic World has been brought to our screens. (Yes, you read that right, 20 years! 22 years actually,...

"When I die, place my body in the hands of an anatomist." I suspect that prayer is said much less often than it should be. And especially...

As I research my dissertation on art and anatomy, I am being very willingly forced to spend hours pouring over books of historical...

Reading about the history of anatomy, I have come across Museo La Specola! The Florence museum containing superb wax models of anatomy....

One of the most engaging exhibits at the Oxford Museum of Natural History is this skull. It is a juvenile Western Gorilla, looking out of...

Stunned by tonight's Doctor Who episode, Flatline. A lovely concept, and thoroughly enjoyable images (and I'll try not to spoil it if you...

... to the Wellcome Collection. A wonderful way to spend an afternoon. And actually my favourite part were the audio extracts, one of...

A late write up from a trip to the wonderful gem, Grant's Museum in London. Part of UCL, hidden somewhere near the Petrie Museum, I was...

Do yourself a favour. Rather than receive the same old Christmas jumper and socks this year, get your relatives to buy you a skull! There...