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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jun 12, 2015
- 1 min
The real Jurassic World
20 years on from Jurassic Park, Jurassic World has been brought to our screens. (Yes, you read that right, 20 years! 22 years actually,...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Apr 24, 2015
- 1 min
The 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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Feb 20, 2015
- 1 min
Vroliking good fun
As I research my dissertation on art and anatomy, I am being very willingly forced to spend hours pouring over books of historical...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Dec 12, 2014
- 1 min
Best candle ever!
Reading about the history of anatomy, I have come across Museo La Specola! The Florence museum containing superb wax models of anatomy....
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Oct 31, 2014
- 1 min
Skull with a smile
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Oct 18, 2014
- 1 min
Dr. Who at the Hunterian
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jul 18, 2014
- 1 min
Wellcome, wellcome, wellcome
... to the Wellcome Collection. A wonderful way to spend an afternoon. And actually my favourite part were the audio extracts, one of...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Mar 28, 2014
- 2 min
Ikea manual for reassembly required
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Dec 13, 2013
- 1 min
SOS - Save our skulls!
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Oct 18, 2013
- 1 min
More weird and wonderful
Another of the wonderful, imaginative anatomy preparations from the Horniman Museum. This is one of the series of animals (bat, hedgehog,...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Oct 11, 2013
- 1 min
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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Oct 4, 2013
- 1 min
Finally 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...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Sep 13, 2013
- 2 min
Witch in a bottle
(Image courtesy of Jack's Adventures in Museumland. I don't know if this is his photo, but I can't get similar quality because this was...
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