World Photography Day – August 19th
August 19th is World Photography Day, so what better time to feature some beautifully manipulated images of some of our favousite specimens? Jim Naughten is a photographer who specialises in […]
What is wrong with our Echidnas?
We were recently involved in a 7-day Twitter campaign to celebrate museums using the hashtag #MuseumWeek2021. We were asked to use different hashtags each day so we thought we would […]
Behind the Scenes of the Fluid Collection
By Claire Smith, Project Officer at the Cole Museum of Zoology As you may know, the Cole Museum of Zoology is closed at the moment, while we prepare to […]
Ode to a cardboard box…
Do you know what’s relatively easy to fundraise for? Conserving and moving a huge elephant skeleton. Do you know what’s relatively impossible to fundraise for? The packing materials needed to […]
Preserving a skeleton: Part 2
After the bones are clean, they are marked and labelled to avoid being misplaced or lost, especially smaller bones, when they’re not properly labelled. The specimen number is then written […]
Preserving a skeleton: Part 1
Less than 10% of the animal kingdom are vertebrates – meaning they have a backbone/skeleton. So, why is it important to preserve the skeleton if only a small portion of […]