paleocoll.blogspot.com
Prerogative of Harlots: Why Big Museums Aren't Going to Save Us
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Prerogative of Harlots is a blog about museums and museum collections, with an occasional seasoning of paleontology and a lot of really ill-informed musings about other stuff. Sunday, April 5, 2015. Why Big Museums Aren't Going to Save Us. On April 3rd, the Chicago Tribune. Breathlessly reported the creation of a new group. According to the Tribune. After giving you a moment or two to mull over quite how perfect that last quote is, and to consider whether this institution. Has anything to teach the world...
pangeology.wordpress.com
The Museum Cabinet | Pangeology
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Twitter has several hashtags for museum topics. On #MuseumHour. A guest host leads a discussion on a selected theme every Monday between 20:00-21:00 UK time. #MuseumWorkersSpeak. Has a questions and answers format and happens every first Wednesday of the month between 14:00-15:00 and 20:00-21:00 EST. On the #ITweetMuseums. Hashtag, anyone can share their museum-related views and experiences; museum workers are encouraged to tweet from their personal accounts. #MuseumDocumentation. This is my personal blo...
museumethnographersgroup.blogspot.com
Making Connections Through World Collections: Materials Identification Workshop
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The Museum Ethnographers Group. Location: Royal Albert Memorial Museum. Art Gallery, Exeter. Jointly run by the. Natural Sciences Collections Association. Maximum number of attendees: 40. Price: free to attend. Date: 15 October 2015. 1000am – 3.00pm. Historic items often employ ivory as a decorative element, but is it elephant ivory or walrus ivory? Do you know the difference between them? The workshop aims to provide museum professionals and students with an opportunity to learn how to identify raw mate...
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Upcoming & Past Events - Ethical Taxidermy
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Upcoming and Past Events. When you're not looking. Brighton and Hove Museum. Intensive bird course running on six consecutive Thursday evenings 6pm to 9pm. 15th September 2016 to the 20th October 2016. Students will learn all stages of bird taxidermy and take their finished piece home with them. All specimens will have died from a natural cause. Book your place *here*. Past Exhibitions, Talks and Articles. The Grant Museum of Zoology. Under the Skin Taxidermy Late / May 2016. Grant Museum of Zoology.
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Links - Mark Nesbitt - ethnobotanist & curator
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Mark Nesbitt - ethnobotanist and curator. Links: websites I find useful. Association for Environmental Archaeology. British Institute at Ankara. British Society for the History of Pharmacy. Natural Sciences Collections Association (NatSCA). Society for Economic Botany. Economic Botany Collection, Kew. Musée du quai Branly. Natural History Museum Botany. Victoria and Albert Museum. Libraries and archive catalogues. Cambridge University Library Books. Includes Royal Commonwealth Society. Good when it cover...
markcolvin.blogspot.com
Secret Nature: December 2014
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Sunday, 28 December 2014. Their Historic Importance and Relevance in the 21st Century. Sir David Attenborough with Wallace's Giant Bee Megachile pluto. 8220;Due to the care of past curators, we can (for example) still handle specimens actually from Linnaeus's personal cabinets, as well as others collected and prepared by later giants in the history of bi. Earl of Cranbrook, taken from Paine 1992). Invertebrate Link (Joint Committee for the Conservation of British Invertebrates. Is applicable to all terre...
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Making Connections Through World Collections: August 2015
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The Museum Ethnographers Group. MEG Event Review: Indigenous Australia at the British Museum. I always find exploring other museum collections and meeting colleagues working in other institutions a rewarding experience. Julia Nicholson and I, both from the Collections Department at the Pitt Rivers Museum, recently visited the British Museum to see the temporary exhibition Indigenous Australia enduring civilisation. A special tour of the. Which included a talk by the Curator. With Curator Gaye Sculthorpe.
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