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The first thing to strike a visitor to the Booth Museum is the smell of the place – which is basically ‘mothballs’. And if you think it’s noticeable in the main gallery you should spend the day in the stores … Continued
A Curious Night at the Booth Museum
Well I could not have hoped for a better start to my exciting new post as the third Blogger in Residence for Brighton Museums than a visit to the Booth Museum of Natural History, where I squeezed in for a … Continued
Treasures of the Booth Museum
In the herbarium archives at the Booth Museum sits a rather nondescript, leather cloth bound box, containing 9 trays of pressed plants. Embossed on the cover are the words ‘North Pole Plants’. The label attached states an old accession register … Continued
Exciting visitors at the Booth!
We had an extra special visitor this week at the Booth. As a designated collection, the Booth Museum holds an internationally important natural science collection that is regularly used in scientific research. We were recently contacted by Canterbury Christ Church … Continued
Tweeting at the Booth Museum
Sometimes the early morning job of unlocking the Booth Museum is a rather sombre affair as Mr. Booth’s birds slowly emerge from the gloom, polishing their glass eyes ready to face their public once more. But now they are greeted … Continued
Projects Pending
Mick Jackson is the new writer-in-residence at the Booth Museum, funded by Arts Council England, from September 2014 to August 2015. Throughout the residency he will be running creative writing workshops and conducting his own research. Mick is on Twitter, … Continued
Festival of Nature 2014 Stanmer Park
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
The collecting gene at the Booth Museum
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
The day the Taxidermist’s Daughter visited the Booth Museum
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
Happy days for fossils at the Booth Museum
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
Gorilla Welfare at the Booth
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
Grin and Bear it
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
A Dodo arrives at the Booth!
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
My Pick of the Booth
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
More International Visitors at the Booth Museum
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 Booth Museum Stars in a New Fossil Project!
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
A First Walk Through The Booth Museum
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
The annual Booth Museum, spruce up!
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
Under an Iron Skin
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
Dr Evgeny Popov
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
