Museum things

[Paul mabbott]

Short notice - anyone south of the River might be interested in:
Horniman Museum exhibition details
to coincide with world oceans day.

[Paul mabbott]

Well, while we're on the subject of natural history museums, why not have a listing? After all, on rainy winters days you won't necessarily be able to find many live animals or flowers.

Of course, there is the NHM - Natural History Museum (strictly speaking, the British Museum (Natural History)!) but, as with the other mail, if your south of the River and want something more manageable, the Horniman Museum ha some very interesting exhibits:
Horniman Museum visiting us

Elsewhere, universities are worth looking at - they have museums primarily for educating their students or for research but the public are usually welcome.
Certainly at the fairly new Cambridge Zoology Museum:
Libraries & Museums:University Museum of Zoology
They also have a Botany collection and a Geology Museum:
Libraries & Museums:The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

I think that my favourites are in Glasgow, not just the Hunterian in general
http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk:443/m...em.php?item=60
but the smaller Zoology Museum ::Welcome to the Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery::
in th university - not all the animals are stuffed!

Any others worth visiting?

[bugbotherer]

Apart from the ones already mentioned
I found this one worth a visit
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (O.U.M.N.H. Homepage)
Last time I went they had some living invertebrate exhibits on the first floor and a bee colony
(Next door is another museum -Pitt Rivers - archeaology and anthropology)

[eeyore]

theres a nice museum in brighton that has a big collection of stuffed birds - me and my mate gary found it one day while wandering about - unfortunately we'd been drinking all day and i can't remember what it was called or where it is exactly - i think it was in the preston park area

[Kymba]

Originally Posted by eeyore

theres a nice museum in brighton that has a big collection of stuffed birds - me and my mate gary found it one day while wandering about - unfortunately we'd been drinking all day and i can't remember what it was called or where it is exactly - i think it was in the preston park area

Well that really helps
Anyone know if theres one in kent?

[thunder]

Originally Posted by eeyore

theres a nice museum in brighton that has a big collection of stuffed birds - me and my mate gary found it one day while wandering about - unfortunately we'd been drinking all day and i can't remember what it was called or where it is exactly - i think it was in the preston park area

The Booth Museum?

henrya

[eeyore]

nice one henry thats the one - i might go back (sober) and have a propper look next time i'm down that way - if anyone else is interested more info is here http://www.booth.virtualmuseum.info/

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by Kymba

Well that really helps
Anyone know if theres one in kent?

thers a museum of rural life in canterbury Minster Museum, Craft & Animal Centre, Attractions Canterbury UK

[Kymba]

Originally Posted by eeyore

thers a museum of rural life in canterbury Minster Museum, Craft & Animal Centre, Attractions Canterbury UK

Just to let you know that Museum is closed now

DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND OUR CONTROL THE MUSEUM IS NOW OFFICIALLY CLOSED

I rang them to double check and its true. Dont know if its perminent but it is closed for all of this year.

[Paul mabbott]

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