Susan Elaine JonesAug 19, 20214 minFurther adventures in the archivesIt has been a crazy week of adventure, triggered by the deep dive into old museum inventories in the Cambridge University Library. Masked...
Susan Elaine JonesAug 17, 20181 minButterflies, bats, fish and flying thingsThe 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...
Susan Elaine JonesJun 29, 20181 minProblems with primatesAs 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...
Susan Elaine JonesFeb 23, 20182 minI ate body!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...
Susan Elaine JonesDec 4, 20161 minBleached blondes of the savannahI enjoyed a smashing visit to Norwich Castle Museum a couple of weekends ago. I spent much of my time in the Natural History Gallery. As...
Susan Elaine JonesJul 12, 20161 minSpin the skull gameD'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...
Susan Elaine JonesJul 8, 20161 minOctopuses for saleLook at these beauties! I think I'm in love! These gorgeous octopuses? Octopi? Octopodes? Beautiful aren't they? But they're in...
Susan Elaine JonesOct 2, 20151 minBehind the scenes at the Zoology MuseumSo 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....
Susan Elaine JonesApr 24, 20151 minThe original Bodyworlds"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...
Susan Elaine JonesFeb 20, 20151 minVroliking good funAs I research my dissertation on art and anatomy, I am being very willingly forced to spend hours pouring over books of historical...
Susan Elaine JonesDec 12, 20141 minBest candle ever!Reading about the history of anatomy, I have come across Museo La Specola! The Florence museum containing superb wax models of anatomy....
Susan Elaine JonesOct 18, 20131 minMore weird and wonderfulAnother of the wonderful, imaginative anatomy preparations from the Horniman Museum. This is one of the series of animals (bat, hedgehog,...
Susan Elaine JonesOct 4, 20131 minFinally off to visit the Walrus!Years after first hearing about it, the circumstances have come together that, next week, I will finally get to visit the Horniman...