Travellers' Tails

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  • Dear Lewisham

    Dear Lewisham

    Dear Lewisham, Thank you so much for having us. Over the last few days I’ve been disassembling the pop-up museum ready to ship the contents back to the National Maritime Museum for use in other parts of the Travellers’ Tails programme. This has given me the chance, as I watched the replica Dingo carried out […]

  • Visitors to the Lewisham Pop-up

    Visitors to the Lewisham Pop-up

    The diverse community of Lewisham seems to be represented in our Exploration case in the window of the Travellers’ Tails pop-up. And one of the many great things about working there is meeting all the fantastic range of visitors who walk through the door. Most aren’t expecting to find a museum in the middle of […]

  • Keeper of Natural History at the Horniman Museum and Gardens

    It wasn’t all mammals you know… Take a look at this fabulous new research resource on John Gilbert (John Gould’s assistant) tracing his Natural History travels across Australia and more. Produced by Dr Clemency Fisher, Senior Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at World Museum Liverpool, this resource brings together years of research and can be accessed […]

  • New Explorer Family Workshops

    Hello there. I’m Claire Kirk and I have been helping our fantastic Choreographer-in-Residence, Beth Peters, organise dance and movement workshops for our new ‘Explorer Families’. The Explorer Family workshops are experimental – designed to test out a new strand of family programming. The aim is that the Explorer Families collaborate with Beth to shape the […]

  • Residency update

    It’s been a busy and exciting month for me within my residency at the museum, full of threads of inspiration and opportunities to explore areas of knowledge that I previously knew little about. I have been developing a jam-packed plan of activities and performances that I intend to deliver over the course of my residency, […]

  • My labour of love for John Gilbert, legendary bird expert

    This wonderful new research resource on John Gilbert (John Gould’s assistant) is now available on World Museum Liverpool’s website. Produced by Dr Clemency Fisher, Senior Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at World Museum Liverpool, this resource brings together years of research tracing Gilbert’s travels across Australia and more. See http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/collections/zoology/john-gilbert/index.aspx and http://blog.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/2015/01/my-labour-of-love-for-john-gilbert-legendary-bird-expert/#more-7197 to read a fabulous […]

  • The Art and Science of Curation

    Curators and curating are at the heart of what makes us museums, yet the word curator is freely used in many contexts and with many meanings.  As a cross-disciplinary museum consortium, we find that across the University of Cambridge Museums our common recognition of the overriding importance of curation is not necessarily matched by a […]

  • My Night With Reg, Wakolda, Home Front, Kevin Eldon, The Art and Science of Exploration

    Kevin Elyot’s ‘My Night With Reg’ was originally staged in 1994 and was the first British gay play to win a wide West End audience as well as several theatre awards. it’s now being revived at London’s Donmar Warehouse. How well does it stand up 2 decades later? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04d0l1s

  • Sam Branson: Heir to an airline journeys to the Arctic

    http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/sam-branson-heir-to-an-airline-journeys-to-the-arctic-398521.html  

  • Kangaroo in 400-year-old manuscript could change Australian history

    A 16th century manuscript featuring an image that looks like a kangaroo could prove that Portuguese explorers discovered Australia before the first recorded European landing in 1606. Kangaroo in 400-year-old manuscript could change Australian history

  • The Expedition to Reach the “Unconquered Pole” and Save the Arctic Sea

    The Expedition to Reach the “Unconquered Pole” and Save the Arctic Sea