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Exhibitions

#SciFri: Visiting Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth? at the Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum’s new temporary exhibition, Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth?, is an exercise in carefully calibrated wonder. It arrives at a time when space stories are no longer the sole province of headline-making missions and sci-fi fantasies:…

#SciFri: Mythical Creatures at Colchester Castle

I recently spent some time in Colchester catching up with my younger brother, and we decided to visit Colchester Castle while we were nearby. We tried to go there as a family once when we were children (back in 2001)…

#SciFri: GIANTS at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

I was fortunate enough to be in Birmingham recently, and while I was there I visited the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. I will be covering the museum itself in a later blog post for #MuseumMonday so please keep an…

#MuseumMonday: Extinction at Braintree Museum

If you’re visiting the Braintree District Museum anytime soon, then please take some time to interact with the touring Extinction exhibition, which is in the first gallery you come to after entering through the shop. This exhibition is one of…

#SciFri: Discovering Dinosaurs at Lightroom

At heart, I am just a big kid (if that wasn’t already obvious). One of my passions outside of herpetology that helps to satisfy my inner childhood curiosity, is palaeontology. I am lucky enough to have published my first paper…

#MuseumMonday: The River at the Natural History Museum

I was fortunate enough last summer to visit the Natural History Museum, while a temporary exhibition by Jana Winderen and Tony Myatt titled the The River was installed in the Jerwood Gallery. It was billed as being a mesmerising journey…

#MuseumMonday: Britain – One Million Years of the Human Story

If you read my previous post on Mammoths: Ice Age Giants, this one probably won’t surprise you. If you haven’t then let me bring you up to speed quickly. I recently stumbled upon an old memory card that I used…

#MuseumMonday: Timeline of exhibitions at the Natural History Museum

Hopefully by now, regular readers of my blog will know that I am a huge fan of the Natural History Museum in London. I had been doing some digging recently, trying to figure out how many of the temporary exhibitions…

#SciFri: Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre

I recently visited the Natural History Museum with some friends to check out the new Birds: Brilliant and Bizarre exhibition which has been billed as a captivating exploration of the avian world, showcasing the incredible diversity, beauty, and oddities of…

#SciFri: Snakes at the Leicester Museum

It will be no surprise to regular readers of this blog that I love both snakes and museums! I was fortunate enough to be in Leicester recently visiting my mum, when I also had the opportunity to meet up with…