While history celebrates the individual scientists and artists who change our understanding of the world, it rarely remembers the assistants who make this pioneering work possible. Perhaps it’s time to spare a thought for George Fleming Richardson, who supported the … 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
Leaping out of the leaves the beast impales its victim, injecting it with paralysing venom along with several eggs. One of these eggs, nurtured and protected by the host eventually hatches and sets about destroying its brother and sister eggs. … Continued
The Prince of Wales attended as a spectator at the above funeral [of Mr Adams], as did several ladies of fashion, who to avoid being pressed by the crowd, got against the walls of the church, and there experienced much … Continued
On 27 and 28 October 2012, Planet Whale are hosting the Whalefest event at the Hilton Metropole, Brighton. Whilst the main event will be a family friendly affair, with many activities to get involved with, there will also be a major conference … 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
Out with the old… On 3 January 2012 the World Art gallery in Brighton Museum & Art Gallery closed in preparation for the new World Stories: Young Voices gallery, opening 23 June 2012. For three months staff have been removing … 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
I’ve been interested in Taxidermy since I was around 9 years old, when I went to visit a family friend’s home in Norfolk. This particular family friend is Emily Mayer; a very talented and successful Taxidermist. I was overwhelmed with … Continued
Shortly before Christmas last year, a trained geologist in our team was cleaning up a piece of old amber in the school loan collections. To his surprise, he discovered several invertebrates trapped inside the amber, including a spider and a … Continued
Effective Collections is a scheme run by the Museums Association which awards funding to museum projects that will help increase access to stored collections and get more objects seen by the public. Over the past two years we have been … Continued
The execution of Peter Stumpf is graphically recounted in the woodcut above. After wolf attacks on travellers outside of Bedburg, near Cologne, a swordsman claims to have fought a werewolf, cutting off its paw in the process (top left of … Continued
The bewitching month of Halloween is upon us, a time when people relish the strange and macabre and delight in tales of ghosts and witches. Such tales are often entwined with folklore passed down among generations along with the amulets … Continued
`You might just as well say,’ added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, `that “I breathe when I sleep” is the same thing as “I sleep when I breathe”!’ – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Hazel … Continued
This autumn Brighton celebrates the 90th anniversary of the Royal Pavilion’s India Gate, as part of a wider celebration of Indian culture. India is well known as a vibrant, exotic and colourful country, and this is also reflected in the wildlife … Continued
Tufts of ‘seaweed’ on rocks on the seashore and beneath the waves are often not what they seem and are in fact animals. They can form such a dense covering that the growth is known as ‘animal turf’. Included in … Continued
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