October | 2025 | NatSCA
3 posts published by Natural Sciences Collections Association during October 2025| NatSCA
3 posts published by Natural Sciences Collections Association during October 2025| NatSCA
Written by Adriana Ballinger, Yale University Charles P. Howland Postgraduate Research Fellow at the National Museum of Ireland, Natural History. Natural history specimens are often inaccessible to the communities from which they were collected. As a result, source communities lack … Continue reading →| NatSCA
Written by Sarah Burhouse, Caitlin Jamison, Bethany Palumbo & Vicky Ward. Compiled by Jennifer Gallichan, Vertebrate Curator, Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales. Those of us that that are lucky enough to work with natural science collections will be familiar with … Continue reading →| NatSCA
Compiled by Milo Phillips, Digitisation Co-ordinator at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Welcome to the October edition of NatSCA Digital Digest. A monthly blog series featuring the latest on wh…| NatSCA
Written by Dr Jamie Maxwell, Collections Assistant, National Museum of Ireland, Natural History. Not every job takes you to a windswept beach on Ireland’s west coast to recover the head of a stranded True’s beaked whale calf. But then again, … Continue reading →| NatSCA
Compiled by Olivia Beavers, Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at World Museum, National Museums Liverpool. Welcome to the September edition of NatSCA Digital Digest. A monthly blog series featuring the latest on where to go, what to see and do … Continue reading →| NatSCA
Written by Pauline Rutter – Independent Archival Artist, Community and Organisation Poet. These words look out from the page with eyes I have borrowed. Eyes not shaped for vision through the specific disciplinary scientific lens. Eyes that strain to see beyond … Continue reading →| NatSCA
Written by Clare Brown, Leeds Museums and Galleries. Taking a walk through a forest, running through fields of wheat or even just gazing at trees, all a far-cry from dealing with the sheets of pres…| NatSCA
Compiled by Ellie Clark, Collections Moves Team Leader at the Natural History Museum. Welcome to the August edition of NatSCA Digital Digest. Digital Digest is a monthly blog series featuring the latest on where to go, what to see and … Continue reading →| NatSCA
Written by Hannah Clarke – Assistant Curator (Collections Access), University of Aberdeen. In May this year, I was given the slightly terrifying task of overseeing the removal and transportation of…| NatSCA
Written by Dr Christina Thatcher, Lecturer in Creative Writing & Dr Lisa El Refaie, Reader in Language and Communication, Cardiff University. With biodiversity declining at an alarming rate, we need to find ways of encouraging people to care about all … Continue reading →| NatSCA
Written by Anastasia van Gaver (Conservator) & Bethany Palumbo (Head of Conservation) Natural History Museum Denmark). As conservators, it’s essential we keep up to date with developments in th…| NatSCA
Written by Sarah Marden, Curator of Natural History at The Box, Plymouth. From March 2024 to April 2025, a new exhibition at The Box called Planet Ocean explored Plymouth’s marine heritage and cont…| NatSCA
Written by Dan Gordon, Keeper of Biology, The Great North Museum: Hancock. So, how did I get started in museums? Like perhaps many people, it began with a stroke of luck. I’d decided to study Biolo…| NatSCA
By Eimear Ashe, Collections Moves Project Manager, National Museum of Ireland Having recently completed a major decant of Natural History collections in the National Museum of Ireland, I thought it…| NatSCA
Written by Julian Carter, Principal Conservator Natural Sciences, Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales, Cardiff During the late 19th century, Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895) and his son Rudolf (1857-1…| NatSCA
Written by Callum Smart, a natural history volunteer at Bolton Museum. He works both in the stores, documenting the collections, and in the gallery engaging with visitors using the objects to start…| NatSCA
Written by Lauren Field, Curator of Natural History, Bolton Museum. In June 2024 Bolton Museum launched a summer exhibition titled Birds of Bolton. This exhibition celebrated the incredible variety…| NatSCA
