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Museums

#SciFri: Visiting the Horniman Museum

Those of you that follow my blog and read last week’s #SciFri will know that I recently visited the Horniman Museum with an entourage of palaeontologists/dinosaur enthusiasts to visit the new exhibition, Dinosaur rEvolution. I first visited the Museum as…

#SciFri: Dinosaur rEvolution

I recently visited the Horniman Museum and Gardens in South London with some of my friends and colleagues from the TetZooCon world. I remember going to the Horniman Museum as a child, but don’t think I have been back in…

#SciFri: Monsters of the Deep

As a scientist with a keen interest in mythology and palaeontology, I recently visited the Chatham Historic Dockyard to visit the Monsters of the Deep exhibition, that was co-curated by Darren Naish of TetZoo fame. Monsters of the Deep was…

#SciFri: Visiting the Southend Central Museum

As a passionate naturalist, and as someone that was both born near Southend and grew up nearby, Southend Central Museum has always been a special place to me. This is despite the fact that I hadn’t been back in over…

#SciFri: The Beaney Museum

Something that has looked me in the eye every time I walked I’ve walked down the high street in the near five years I’ve lived in Canterbury, is The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge (what a name!), commonly known…

#SciFri: Titanosaur – Life as the Biggest Dinosaur

As you may have seen on social media recently, I visited the Titanosaur exhibit at the Natural History Museum, London with a few other likeminded individuals, thanks to the brilliant organising skills of James Pascoe (cheers mate!). For those of…

#SciFri: Visiting the Folkestone Museum

Recently, I visited the Folkestone Museum which is a small, local museum located in the heart of Folkestone (which you probably guessed by its name). Some of you may know about Folkestone, and some of you may not have heard…

#SciFri: Visiting the Maidstone Museum

It’s always great when you’re out and about, and you stumble across an amazing local museum. That’s what happened recently when visiting Maidstone recently. I hadn’t really been before, and wanted to have it crossed off of my list, while…

#SciFri: Visiting the Wellcome Collection

If you’ve ever got off at Euston Station in London, or been for a walk up Euston Road, you’ve probably walked past the Wellcome Collection (and the adjoining Wellcome Trust). I thought it was about time I visited, so a…

The Otago Museum

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past fortnight, you’re probably aware that I’ve recently been in Dunedin for the 9th World Congress of Herpetology. Aside from the conference (which was mind-blowingly awesome) I also did a number…