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My Favourite Specimen at the Grant Museum
I finally did it, I bit the bullet. You’d think that after [a number of undisclosed years] at the Grant Museum I’d have my answer for the regular question from visitors “What is your favourite...
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Considering our History – the Good Times
Students taught in the Museum by E Ray Lankester in 1887 Last week we launched six new permanent displays telling the story of the history of the Grant Museum, focusing on the story of how the teaching...
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Specimen of the Week: Week 156 (The Evolution of Life on Land)
It’s the third birthday of the Specimen of the Week blogs, so this one is a special one, tackling one of the biggest events in global history (no exaggeration). It’s also the start of winter term at...
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Specimen of the Week: Week 180
This week’s specimen of the week is an object that is very special to me and one of the objects featured in our current exhibition Strange Creatures: The Art of Unknown Animals. The theme of the...
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Specimen of the Week: Week 185
This week I’m honouring a mammal that we can link to two significant factors in my life recently. First, it’s an Australian hopping marsupial, as are kangaroos. Our current Strange Creatures exhibition...
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Specimen of the Week 244: The historic wax flatworm
LDUCZ-D44 Fasciola hepatica Since its inception in 1828, the Grant Museum of Zoology collections have always been used for teaching. This continues in the present day and the Museum welcomes students...
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Specimen of the Week 275: Mystery wax models
In a radical departure from tradition, this week’s blog will focus on what we don’t know about a specimen, rather than what we do know. The reason being is that the specimen in question is rather...
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