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 have a medical skeleton. I have an additional medical skeleton. I have been studying bones and human anatomy, and whilst quite ill...

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...

Another of the wonderful, imaginative anatomy preparations from the Horniman Museum. This is one of the series of animals (bat, hedgehog,...

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...

Years after first hearing about it, the circumstances have come together that, next week, I will finally get to visit the Horniman...

(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...