#MuseumMonday: Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
If you love museums that feel like friendly encyclopaedias of a place where local history, natural history, art and a surprisingly global collection rub shoulders in a handsome old building, then the Hastings Museum & Art Gallery is a quietly…
#MuseumMonday: Braintree District Museum
Despite the fact my mum lived in Braintree for over a decade, I never actually visited the local museum. At the time I wasn’t the biggest fan of local museums and was unaware of their significance. So, I decided to…
#MuseumMonday: Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée
One of the museums I have wanted to visit for a very long time now, is the Galerie de Paléontologie et d’Anatomie comparée. This is for a number of reasons, with the name one quite clearly discernible from the name…
#MuseumMonday: The Crab Museum
Regular readers of this blog and my #MuseumMonday feature will know that I love natural history. When visiting all the museums that I do, you tend to see the same information being presented in a very similar way. This can…
#MuseumMonday: Musée des Arts et Métiers
What do you do when you arrive in Paris and are waiting for your hotel check-in to open? You go to a museum of course! The Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris (Conservatoire national des arts et métiers) is…
#MuseumMonday: Galerie de Géologie et de Minéralogie
One of my loves outside of herpetology is geology. It is a subject I studied at A-level and who doesn’t love collecting shiny rocks? My love for the subject is probably evident by my recent visit to the Lyme Regis…
#MuseumMonday: Musée des Moulages
One of the more unique museums I visited while in Paris was the Musée des Moulages or Museum of Casts. Tucked inside the historic Hôpital Saint-Louis in the 10th arrondissement, the Musée des Moulages preserves the world’s richest ensemble of…
#MuseumMonday: Musée Curie
Do I have a surprise for you all? I recently spent two weeks in Paris with the goal of visiting as many cool museums as I could. The first of these that I want to share with you is the…
#MuseumMonday: Recollections of the Olduvai Gorge Museum
I was lucky enough to visit Tanzania in 2014 as part of my undergraduate studies. One of the many places I was fortunate enough to visit was the Olduvai Gorge Museum. A quick geography lesson: Olduvai Gorge (often spelled ‘Oldupai’)…
#MuseumMonday: Visiting Prittlewell Priory
One place a remember going to regularly as a child was to Priory Park in Southend-on-Sea. As the name suggests, this is home to Prittlewell Priory, which is a remarkable Grade I listed medieval site, with origins dating back to around…
