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The Natural History Museum’s touring exhibition T.rex: The Killer Question will be exhibited at Peterborough Cathedral from 18th July to 3rd September 2022. “This world class exhibition has nine roaring and moving animatronic dinosaurs of various sizes, including a three-quarter size T.rex. A 12-metre-long static model of a T. rex and a life-size[…]
Written by Lu Allington-Jones, Senior Conservator, and Wren Montgomery, FTIR Specialist, both at the Natural History Museum, London One day, not so very long ago, a request came into the Conservation Centre at the Natural History Museum (London, UK) to investigate why some fragmentary limb bones of a hadrosaurian dinosaur[…]
The 12th International Conference on Modern and Fossil Dinoflagellates will take place at the Auditorio Alfredo Kraus de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain 4th – 8th July 2022. The Natural History Museum’s touring exhibition T.rex: The Killer Question will be exhibited at Peterborough Cathedral from 18th July to 3rd September 2022. “This[…]
Written by John Cooke, Mineral Enthusiast and Part-Time Volunteer Curator An Example of Investigative Co-operation with the Forensic Team at Keele University The reader may recall that I presented the story of a Victorian mineral collection about 2 years ago. At the time I was particularly interested in the ownership[…]
The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections are hosting this year’s conference in collaboration with Biodiversity Heritage Library and Natural Sciences Collections Association. It will take place in-person, in Edinburgh, 5th – 10th June 2022. SPNHC’s 2022 tagline is: “Through the door and through the web: releasing the power[…] Check out the latest posts on our blog at the links below
News from the Sector – July
Jul 31, 2022 | 16:31 pm
The Case of the “Asbestos” Dinosaur
Jul 27, 2022 | 15:35 pm
New from the Sector – June
Jul 1, 2022 | 09:09 am
The Reverend Edward Budge-Cornish Mineral Collection
Jun 16, 2022 | 10:49 am
News from the Sector – May
May 31, 2022 | 13:30 pm