Not content with waiting for visitors to the Booth Museum, the modern Curator needs to reach out to the local community to introduce everyone to their local Museum and its wonderful collections. And so it came to pass that on … Continued
I went to the legendary Booth Museum yesterday and I will certainly be going back some more during my Blogger-in-Residence time. I had ‘the tour’ from Keeper John Cooper and it was every bit as fascinating as promised. I’ve mulled … Continued
I have blogged many times about the occasions when we receive visits from scientists interested in various aspects of our collections, ranging from Gorillas to fossil fish. But as anyone who is familiar with the Booth Museum will know that … Continued
One of the jobs that a Keeper of Natural Sciences in a museum must do is look after the scientific interests of the collections for which he is responsible. I have blogged several times about visits to the Booth Museum … Continued
The Booth Museum has welcomed a visiting scientist to its collections once again, this time matching Professor John E. Cooper to the Keeper of Natural Sciences John A. Cooper! Professor Cooper wanted to see our collection of Gorilla material which … Continued
The Booth Museum collections have once again been consulted for scientific research. Spyridoula (Roula) Pappa is a research student at the Royal Holloway College of the University of London. She is studying micro wear patterns on the teeth of modern … Continued
The Booth Museum of Natural History has acquired a new exhibit! In January 2014 a complete skeleton of a Dodo arrived. Although it is a replica (no complete original skeleton exists) it is cast from real bones which originally were … Continued
On tours of the stores and in casual conversation down the pub, curators are often asked what their favourite object is. The natural science collections held at the Booth contain almost a million objects from around the world so picking … Continued
The Booth Museum has had two international visitors this month on very different missions. Both were from North America, and both are studying for their Ph.D.s. First we welcomed Caitlin Silberman from California, but studying for her doctorate in Art … Continued
The fossil collections at the Booth Museum are currently getting some attention they deserve! Two scientists from the British Geological Survey (BGS) are spending a week with us photographing some of our most important specimens. International science codes require that … Continued
I’ll chat as soon as I can with John Cooper, the Keeper of Natural Sciences up at the Booth Museum. But today, for my first visit, I came up here ‘incognito’ and just spent a couple of hours wandering around. … Continued
As the annual closed week at the Booth draws to a close, a number of changes have been made to the museum which the casual visitor may or may not notice. One of the main aims of the week was … Continued
Lauren Heckler has been working with us at the Booth Museum on her installation Under an Iron Skin, which is now completed. Lauren is in her second year of studies at the University of Brighton on the Fine Art Critical … Continued
The Booth Museum welcomed a visiting Russian scientist recently. Dr Evgeny Popov from the University of Saratov is a palaeontologist who researches fossil sharks. The collections in the Booth are rich in chalk fossils, especially those donated by Henry Willett in 1860, … Continued
Edward Thomas Booth amassed a large collection of British birds in the 19th century. He built a museum in 1874 to house his collection, displaying each of the birds in a series of dioramas. He bequeathed the collection and museum to … Continued
A Rhea view of an egg We receive no end of fantastic enquiries at the Booth Museum, perhaps snakes, bugs, meteorites, flints and bones being amongst the most common. So it really is refreshing when something new comes along, and … Continued
With tongue fixed firmly in cheek it has been a long standing joke in the Booth Museum that from a conservator’s perspective the ideal Natural History Museum would be situated in deep space, shielded in some way from the ravages … Continued
On 27 July, the Booth Museum is hosting an urban wildlife day. This event is being held to support the city’s bid to make our surrounding countryside and coastline a UNESCO biosphere reserve. The day will consist of a variety of … Continued
Following the visit of a noted academic, a number of the fossils in Brighton Museum’s collections have been found to be preserved parts of armoured dinosaurs (nodosaurids) commonly known as anklyosaurs. Any examples of nodosaurid fossils are rare in the … Continued
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