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Do 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...
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A 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...
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Specimen 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...
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Behind 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...
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Spotlight 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...
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Dead 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...
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Specimen 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...
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Improving 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...
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From 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...
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Parasites 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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