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IT CAME FROM THE STORES……..
Friends of the Grant Museum will know that the last year was a tough year for the museum. Not only did we have to move the museum but our stores were plagued with floods. This has meant that our stored...
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Specimen of the Week: Week Seven
I am pretty excited about this week’s specimen as it is our first specimen suggestion that has come from a reader (who I don’t know personally.) (That is unless it’s someone I know acting under a...
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How to tell an archaeologist from a palaeontologist
This post is something of a PSA to address a pet peeve of mine, the general confusion in the media about the difference between scientists working in biology and archaeology. Here’s a recent example of...
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Specimen of the Week 189: Actinia equina
LDUCZ – C373 – All seems peaceful in this bell jar… We have had both an ethics and an art angle during the last week at the Grant Museum which you might have noticed if you attended some of our...
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Specimen of the Week 213: The Enigmatic Gibbon
Hello Grant Museum blog readers and zoology enthusiasts, it’s Rachel Bray here. You may be wondering who I am, unless you saw a Specimen of the Week blog by me back in May when I temporarily joined the...
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How and why did these animals die?
Something which I get asked a lot by the Grant Museum’s visitors is “how did these animals die?” It’s an excellent question and one to which I wish there were a more comfortable answer. Or, at least, a...
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Specimen of the week 292: the horned lizard
LDUCZ-X86 horned lizard The Mexican plateau horned lizard (Phrynosoma orbiculare) is a small reptile native to the high plateau of Central Mexico. They are almost spherical, about the size of a 50p...
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Plural Animal Wednesdays
This blog is about a centuries-old quirk of the English language that has become a Grant Museum tradition. If you follow us on twitter (@GrantMuseum) you may have come across Plural Animal Wednesday...
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Specimen of the Week 389: The Monarch Butterfly
This blog was written by UCL Culture volunteer Melissa Wooding. Today’s specimen of the week highlights one of the world’s longest animal migrations at 6,000 miles1– completed by an insect! This...
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Meet our Volunteers!
In today’s blog, we’d like to introduce you to some people without whom a visit to our museums simply wouldn’t be the same: meet some of our wonderful team of Front of House volunteers! Here they tell...
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