A blog from the perspective of the Curator, Jan Freedman, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery highlighting risks to collections, in particular natural science, and how UK museums can help each other to solve problems, identify and prevent risk.
Paolo Viscardi, the then Deputy Keeper of Natural History at the Horniman Museum and Gardens, and now the Curator at Grant Museum of Zoology, provides some practical pointers on health and safety relating to natural history specimens used in handling.
Collections are a fantastic resource for engaging the public, but it’s worth keeping in mind that they may have some health and safety issues that you should probably be aware of. Some of these will be fairly obvious, but others less so.
Hazards in collections
At the beginning of a workshop held on 14 June 2014 that explored how to encourage clinical research in natural science collections session we asked delegates to consider the crucial question, why is clinical research important to museums? The answers are below. Details of the workshops and accompanying blogs are on the page: Encouraging Clinical Access
A blog from a curatorial perspective illustrating how and why education and curatorial staff work together to use natural science collections at Leeds Museums and Galleries
A blog by Cameron Crawley, Curatorial Assistant (work placement) for South American Fossil Mammals at the Natural History Museum, reporting on a Collections for All workshop at the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons: Encouraging clinical research in natural science collections.
A blog by Kristin Hussey, whilst the Assistant Curator of the Hunterian Museum at Royal College of Surgeons reflecting on the issues raised at a workshop held on 14 June 2014 that explored how to encourage clinical research in natural science collections. Read on to find out how collaboration can help…
A short story sharing how front-of-house staff gained conservation skills and the effect this had on the Natural History Museum Tring, staff and visitor experience.
By Anne Chapman [Operations Manager] with contributions from Kelcie Maydom [Housekeeping Supervisor] and Anne-Marie Bavington [Museum and Security Assistant]
