Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Exhibition of works at the Horniman Museum and Gardens inspired by selected pieces from the natural history collection. 22nd October 2016 - 1st May 2017. Derby Museum and Art Gallery.

Is opening another chapter of its exhibition series Looted Art? Provenance Research on the Collections of the MKG. This museum provides with its African collection and its objects from the Benin culture a fitting context for a respectful treatment of these works. Relief Panel with Three Dignitaries.

Prerogative of Harlots is a blog about museums and museum collections, with an occasional seasoning of paleontology and a lot of really ill-informed musings about other stuff. Sunday, March 12, 2017. Who We Are and What We Want to Be. Which brings us back to the power of real items. The information extracted from our specimens is use-dependent.

Mark Nesbitt - ethnobotanist and curator. Photographed at its closure, 1960. One of four buildings that held the Collection at its peak. London talks on 13 and 14 October 2015. I work at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. As Team Leader for Economic Botany and.

Have something to say? Is well worth.

Is the largest Hairstreak to be found in the British Isles. It is a local species that exists in self-contained colonies that breed in the same area season after season. Despite this, it can prove extremely elusive, since it spends much of its time resting and basking high up in tall trees and shrubs. Which flies at the same time. Is also often mistaken for betulae.

This is the personal blog of Mark Carnall. All the views expressed here are not those of my employer. Fistful of Cinctans is all about natural history museums, zoology and related nerdery. Cecil the Lion, Cory the Cod, Monty the Monkfish. Last week I was asked to do a Museums Showoff.