#SciFri: A Body of Knowledge at the Royal College of Physicians
As you may have seen from the recently #MuseumMonday post, I visited the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Museum, which is located in in Regent’s Park. While I was there, I visited the temporary exhibition A Body of Knowledge which…
#MuseumMonday: Timeline of exhibitions at the British Library
The British Library is perhaps best known as one of the world’s great repositories of books, manuscripts and historical documents, but its collections also provide a remarkable window into the natural world and our understanding of it. Across its history,…
#SciFri: The Art of Deception at the Whipple Museum
There is something wonderfully appropriate about the fact that the Whipple Museum of the History of Science should mount an exhibition about deception. Scientific instruments are objects upon which trust depends. A telescope must provide a reliable image; a balance…
#MuseumMonday: My visit to the Whipple Museum of the History of Science
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science occupies a distinctive place among Britain’s university museums. Hidden away on the atmospheric Free School Lane in Cambridge, the museum is not simply a repository of antique instruments. It is a living…
#MuseumMonday: What is The Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum?
I recently visited a museum I have walked past a number of times in the past. I completed one of my MRes projects while studying at Imperial College London at the St Mary’s Campus and never noticed this museum, despite…
#MuseumMonday: Exploring the Museum of Anaesthesia
Whilst I was in London recently, I took the time to visit the Museum of Anaesthesia, more formally known as the Anaesthesia Heritage Centre. This is a specialised medical museum located at 21 Portland Place in London. It forms part…
#StevesLibrary: Turing and the Universal Machine
Okay, time for something a little different. Jon Agar’s Turing and the Universal Machine: The Making of the Modern Computer is a concise, thoughtful entry in the Icons Science series that does more than recount the life of Alan Turing….
#SciFri: The history of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris
The Jardin des Plantes is one of Paris’s most enduring and intellectually significant institutions. Situated on the Left Bank of the Seine in the 5th arrondissement, it is far more than a botanical garden. Over nearly four centuries, it has…
#MuseumMonday: My visit to the Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris
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: Old Operating Theatre Museum
Tucked away in the attic of the early‑18th‑century St Thomas’s Church near London Bridge station, the Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret is Europe’s oldest surviving surgical theatre. Originally the hospital apothecary’s herb garret, in 1822 it was converted into a women‑only…
