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In case you missed it, this past week has been #MuseumWeek 2015 - a week where cultural institutions from all over the world get together the celebrate museums and collections under 7 themed hashtags.
Find out more on the MuseumWeek website, or catch up with news n highlights from the Guardian, Grrlscientist and Mashable.
Pics featured: Twitter’s MuseumWeek graphics + a couple I took for our two favourite themes at London’s Natural History Museum.
Natural History Museum, London
Matthew Pillsbury - Museum Hours, 2004-2010
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See more from Museum Hours here.
Black Rhino.
Natural History Museum. Dublin, Ireland.
The risk of robbery for Chinese medicine has forced the museum to remove the horn from display.
Many museums have, as this sign implies, already furnished their Rhino specimens with replica horns for display. The Natural History Museum in Tring is one which springs to mind.
We had an unattached horn on display at work that's also had to go. It makes me sadface.
The Dump Site III
First, I am so pleased to announce we passed 1,000 followers this weekend (now at 1,067 and counting!). I was not at all anticipating this blog would blow up like this, but am glad it did, and I think it’s amazing there are so many folks out there who share this common interest and love with me! What is better than being able to share what you love with the rest of the world?! Nothing, so I’m glad you all are here to help!
This Saturday, our Vertebrate Osteology class packed up and took a field trip to the “Dump Site” outside of Missoula. This area is a popular spot for hunters to discard of their carcasses after cleaning, and we also have come across multiple cat and dog remains as well as the random beaver or bear bone. The point of this endeavor is so the students may get field experience locating and identifying faunal remains. After we locate some remains, we attempt to identify the species, age, potential cause of death, and determe if there are taphonomic evidences, pathologies, or traumas. The skeletal remains were abundant this year so there was no lack of interesting things to look at and pick apart. I was very excited to find the right mandible of an antelope that suffered from “lumpy jaw” (more on that later!)
This field trip is the highlight of our semester, as it is the opportunity for our students to apply their new accumulated knowledge of faunal analysis in a practical setting. Plus, hiking around a beautiful pine forest in Montana during the budding Spring months is always high on my priority list!
What an awesome field trip! The closet illustrator in me REALLY wants to go there and draw things.
The closet illustrator doesn't get out much.
SUBMISSION: These are all naturally coloured diamonds. They’re on display in The Vault at the Natural History Museum in London. The lights dim every so often revealing the fact that some of them also glow.
