Prestigious award for UCL Museums & Collections
A team of researchers from UCL Museums & Collections has just been awarded a Certificate of Commendation by the Royal Society for Public Health Arts and Health Awards Committee for their ‘Heritage...
View ArticleCrimes against curators
It’s a Monday, which is always a tough day, as the emails have had all weekend to pile up and all the things you didn’t manage to do last week now need to be done even more urgently this week. So maybe...
View ArticleShould or should not museums be places for debate?
Last week the Museums Association (MA) published the results of its survey of public attitudes to museums. This survey showed all the good news that museum people love to hear – lots of people love...
View ArticleScience Research in a Science Museum?
As chance would have it at the same time as we received research interest from the Royal College of Art, colleague Dr Zerina Johanson, researcher in the Earth Sciences Department at the Natural History...
View ArticleDo Dodo Bones Belong in a Museum?
This week the Daily Mail reported that two bones from a dodo were set to sell at auction for £30,000. This would be the first private sale of a dodo bone since 1934*. My first reaction was one of...
View ArticleA gem of an idea
Dramatically bearded gentleman shows off his classical headgear. Every collection has its nooks and crannies, and it’s rare for curators to know the full scope of their domain. So every now and again...
View ArticleSpecimen of the Week: Week 150
I did not really have a choice selecting the specimen of the week; this as a particular specimen was speaking to me in the corner of one of the display cases, I felt somewhat hypnotised. Firstly...
View ArticleBehind the Mask – Research into the Noel Collection
This is a guest blog written by Bryony Swain, a UCL Student Volunteer who spent most of the last academic year (2014/15) cataloguing the Noel Collection of Life and Death Masks. Hello, I’ve been...
View ArticleSpotlight on the Slade – October 2015 update
Percy Wyndham Lewis, Stooping Nude Child, 1900, Black Chalk, UCL 6003 (The Estate of Mrs G.A. Wyndham Lewis. By permission of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust (a Registered Charity) Blog post by Helen...
View ArticleDead to me!
Human remains at the Petrie Museum. It’s time to come out of storage! Death is part of life, and for me, death is very much a part of work since I am currently rehousing the human remains at the...
View ArticleSpecimen of the Week 327: The Fancy Casts
It’s that time of year when a very lucky specimen gets the research equivalent of the red-carpet treatment. Each January, students in UCL’s Collection Curatorship class (as part of their MA in Museum...
View ArticleImproving object descriptions in UCL’s Object-Based Learning Lab
During Spring/Summer 2020, when UCL was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, UCL Culture’s curatorial team worked with students from the Institute of Archaeology’s MA Museum Studies on our...
View ArticleFrom the Micrarium: Isoparorchis, a parasite of an Australian catfish species...
Even though the Grant Museum is closed this summer, we still have plenty of exciting stories to tell from the collection! Today’s blog is by visiting researcher Dr Andrew McCarthy from Canterbury...
View ArticleParasites from an Endangered Deep-Water Shark and their link to Professor Sir...
The Grant Museum is currently closed this summer for some refurbishment works but we still have plenty of exciting stories to tell from the collection. Today’s blog is by visiting researcher Dr Andrew...
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