‘African Hair Combs’ – a Conservator’s comment
Guest Blogger: Pia Edqvist Has anyone seen the exhibition ’Origins of the Afro Comb, 6,000 years of Culture, Politics and Identity’ currently on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge? If so,...
View ArticleSpecimen of the Week: Week 165
When Specimen of the Week first arose from its fossil ancestors in the Early Blogocene, the niche it originally occupied was to shed light on the darkest corners of our stored collections. Over time,...
View ArticleThe world’s rarest skeleton returns to the Grant Museum
Can you spot the difference between these two photos? The quagga before conservation and remounting. LDUCZ-Z581 The quagga after conservation and remounting. LDUCZ-Z581. Courtesy of Nigel Larkin They...
View ArticleSpecimen of the Week 199: Jar of…..
LDUCZ- Z2754 Jar of Moles Hello Specimen of the Week readers, Dean Veall here. The specimen I have chosen can be found immediately in front of you as you enter the Museum doors in Cabinet 12. This is...
View ArticleHappy 132nd Quagga Day! It’s been a good year for quaggas
A Quagga 132 years ago today, 12th August 1883, the last quagga died, alone in her cage at Amsterdam Zoo. The celebration/commeration of Quagga Day has become annual fixture at the Grant Museum, as we...
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