Wet specimen

Further adventures in the archives

It has been a crazy week of adventure, triggered by the deep dive into old museum inventories in the Cambridge University Library. Masked...

Butterflies, bats, fish and flying things

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...

Make no bones about it

Today I saw a lovely, informative image from the Biologist's Apprentice on Facebook. Which made me realise that I would not normally have...

Getting wet at OUMNH

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

Octopuses for sale

Look at these beauties! I think I'm in love! These gorgeous octopuses? Octopi? Octopodes? Beautiful aren't they? But they're in...

A jar of moles

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...

The weird and wonderful

I never fail to be astonished by the weird and wonderful things out on display in museums that people don't even notice. And the infinite...

SUSAN ELAINE JONES