Learn the story behind our whale skeleton, heading for Leeds City Museum, and what we can learn from the bones.
Category: Natural History
Creating a Sustainable Exhibition
Discover how we kept sustainability at the forefront of our Beavers to Weavers exhibition.
Beavers to Weavers: The Wonderful World of Animal Makers
Discover the message behind Leeds City Museum’s latest exhibition, about what animals do and how they live their lives.
The Bird Egg Collection
Claire Miles explores our LMG’s Bird Egg collection during her placement with our Natural Sciences Collection.
Installing Skeletons: Our Buried Bones
Curator Ruth Martin answers the age old question: what does it take to change the temporary exhibition gallery from one show to another?
A Springtime Walk: Exploring our Natural Environment
Curator of Natural Sciences Rebecca Machin takes us on a walking tour to explore the delicate balance of springtime, in light of the “For All Seasons” exhibition at Leeds City Museum.
Plumage Puzzle – a Bird Specimen Challenge!
New collections challenge on social media! Test your birdy knowledge with #PlumagePuzzle!
The Secret Life of the Leeds Tiger
The Leeds Tiger over at Leeds City Museum is one of our best-loved exhibits, but how did it get here and was it really once a rug? Thanks to some amazing research by Ebony Andrews, (in her PhD thesis ‘The Biographical Afterlife of the Leeds Tiger’), we have the answers to some of these questions!…
Taking Care of our Taxidermy Collection
Find out what it takes to care for over 700,000 specimens in our Natural Science collection.
Museums and extinct species
Natural science collections contain some of the huge biodiversity on our planet, including rare and extinct species.
Treasures of the Herbarium Collection
We look after a beautiful collection of Herbarium sheets, containing stunning specimens of plants through time.
The Dinosaur Bone in a Rock
Find out what it takes to clean a dinosaur bone, ready for display.
