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On the Origin of Our Specimens: The Minchin Years
‘The Thirteen’ The collection of specimens, known since 1997 as the Grant Museum of Zoology, was started in 1827 by Robert E. Grant. Grant was the first professor of zoology at UCL when it opened, then...
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On the Origin of Our Specimens: The Hill Years
‘The Thirteen’ The collection of specimens, known since 1997 as the Grant Museum of Zoology, was started in 1827 by Robert E. Grant. Grant was the first professor of zoology at UCL when it opened, then...
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Specimen of the Week: Week 127
We have some great skeletons at the Grant Museum, all of which are dinosaurs, if you listen to five year old children. Actually we don’t have any large dinosaur skeletons, but that doesn’t stop...
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Specimen of the Week: Week 128
Here at the Grant Museum we love all species of animal. We are not racist, sexist, size-ist, species-ist, or any such ist at all. It was not us that named this animal, but if it had been us who gave it...
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The Museum is Where the People Are – vote for us now
Roberto Rossellini’s Nightmare, Pure Evil VOTE NOW http://bit.ly/connectpureevil Old master prints, drawings of flayed bodies, mysterious things in glass jars, extinct animal skeletons, glittery...
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How and why did these animals die?
Something which I get asked a lot by the Grant Museum’s visitors is “how did these animals die?” It’s an excellent question and one to which I wish there were a more comfortable answer. Or, at least, a...
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Underwhelming Fossil Fish of the Month July 2017
Another month has come and gone, so like the perpetual progress of time this means another underwhelming fossil fish of the month is upon us. For the happy ignorant just joining us for the first time,...
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Underwhelming Fossil Fish of the Month September 2017
Welcome to this month’s EXCLUSIVE September 2017 underwhelming fossil fish of the month, your one stop shop for monthly underwhelming fish fossils delivered direct to your eyeballs in exchange for only...
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Underwhelming Fossil Fish of the Month January 2018
Welcome to January’s underwhelming fossil fish of the month. Normally in this introductory bit, before the jump, I try to do a bit about some topical event and then tentatively link it to this month’s...
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How can you care for museum collections during lockdown?
This blog was written by Conservator Graeme McArthur from the UCL Culture Collections Management Team. The closure of UCL’s campus during lockdown has provided new challenges for UCL Culture’s...
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