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The emergence of Empathy

“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.” Bonhoeffer   Although I may be hedging my bets by opening my first ever blog...

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Exchanging Knowledge through the Cultural Heritage Fellowship programme

guest blogger: Tonya Nelson (Petrie Museum Manager) This year UCL Museums and Public Engagement entered into an exciting partnership with the British Council to develop and deliver a Fellowship...

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Do you use ‘Curate’ when ‘Organise’ will do? Well you shouldn’t…

Inspired by my colleague Mark’s excellent blog ‘How to tell an archaeologist from a palaeontologist’ (read it here) I thought I’d dedicate my blog to my own particular bug bear: The use of the word...

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What’s in a name? Outreach with a capital “O”…

So the time has come for me to write my first blog post and, after an initial panic, I decided that this would be an opportune moment to talk about Outreach: What it is, why we do it, and what it...

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A Review, of sorts, of Treasures at the Natural History Museum

Treasures is the new permanent exhibition at the Natural History Museum (NHM) which “displays 22 of the most extraordinary specimens that have ever been on show at the Museum”. I’d been excited about...

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The Micrarium – a place for tiny things – opens

Here at the Grant Museum we’re not afraid to try something big or something new. This time we’re doing just that with something small and something old, with a topic which has traditionally been...

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Introducing Culture Vulture… Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men: A review

Culture Vulture: A vulture skull in UCL Art MuseumWe’ve been doing a few exhibition reviews on the blog lately, and after the unprecedented success of the new Book Worm series (launched yesterday) we...

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University Challenge: exploring university and museum relationships in the...

Museum of Brands, QRator Project Museums and universities teaming up to score shared rewards In the autumn of 2012, Arts Council England funded University College London [UCL], the University of Arts...

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Considering our History – the Good Times

Students taught in the Museum by E Ray Lankester in 1887Last 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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Volunteer call out for Touching Heritage project

Object Handling in the community If you are someone who is passionate about heritage, interested in health and wellbeing, and keen to volunteer in an innovative heritage-in-health project – we want to...

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Will a museum studies degree help you get a job in a museum?

This post is a bit inside baseball, but then so is the metaphor inside baseball. We get asked the above question at the Grant Museum frequently by aspiring museum professionals and volunteers and it’s...

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Culture Vulture: Ice Age Art: arrival of the modern mind at the British Museum

Culture Vulture: A vulture skull in UCL Art Museum This is the second of our Culture Vulture exhibition reviews (the first is here) As I mentioned in an earlier article about whether a degree in museum...

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Can museums improve your health and wellbeing?

Patients at University College Hospital enjoying an object handling sessionFor several years a team of researchers in UCL Museums have been investigating the role of touch and object handling in health...

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Grant Museum Objects on Tour: Lost Labels

Lost labels from the Grant Museum. Last week, the exhibition Nature Reserves opened at GV Art, London a group exhibition examining the relationship between how humans interpret and archive the natural...

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Riding on the crest of a ware

I’m quite partial to memorabilia, and I have a passionate interest in the life and work of Flinders Petrie, not just because he’s a an impressively beardy archaeologist and legend, but also because for...

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Happy 130th Quagga Day – Maybe more extinct than we thought

130 years ago today, 12th August 1883, the last ever quagga died. As custodians of one of the only quagga skeletons in existence, we consider it our responsibility to commemorate the tragic passing of...

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Europe’s First Kangaroo and the Grant Museum: Save our Stubbs

James Cook’s landing in Australia in 1770 changed the political, social and natural world. With regards to the latter, the animals the expedition discovered, described and exported have had profound...

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A week in the life of a Curator

People often ask me what it is I do for a job. “Well” I answer, “I’m a curator”. Me in the micrarium atthe Grant Museum. “Yes, but what do you actually do?” “I curate a collection, I help look after...

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The best natural history specimen in the world (did not get thrown on a fire)

Last week I saw something that had never occurred to me might be possible to see. Through the years I have learned a lot about this object – I knew where it was, I knew where it came from and I...

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NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM BINGO!

My colleague Jack Ashby alluded to the Natural History Bingo Card in a recent blog post so I thought I’d take the time to present it to the wide world! Natural history museums are funny places. Despite...

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