Tag: travel
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Visitors and exploration: my experience so far as an Explorer Volunteer
My friend recently asked me the question ‘if you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be?’ Her answer? Hiking in a mountain in New Zealand. And mine? Next to a log fire with a good book and some mulled wine. In complete honesty though, I’ve never had the ‘travel bug.’ […]