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  1. #Museum30 Day 30 - ‘Why Museum 30?'
    Why posting 30 things about #museums? Because museums are more than the #exhibitions people visit. Museums have many objects visitors usually don't get to see (for various reasons not because we wouldn't want to), aspects people usually wouldn't think and people wouldn't know about. The #herbarium in the #NHMLondon is one of the lesser known parts. I hope got to know 'us' a bit better. :)
    Stay curious!

    #museodon

  2. #Museum30 Day 29 - ‘#Storytelling'
    Collections are so much more than gatherings of stuff. They are more than just pretty or old things. They tell can tell stories about the past, about #nature or #crafts and #art. In this case even all together.
    twitter.com/mark_carine/status

    [sorry for the link to 'the other place' but I want to credit the finder of this curiosity]

  3. #Museum30 Day 28 - ‘Walls'
    Quite in contrast to the amazing terracotta walls of the Waterhouse Building (the old part of the #NHMLondon), the walls in the General #Herbarium are more practical: white painted concrete. Except for a few posters to guide the users through our geographical systematic arrangement of the collections, we don't have much decoration.
    A bit more colour offer the walls in the open plan office. A soothing pale violet.

  4. #Museum30 Day 27 - ‘Plan'
    The #NHMLondon is not just only big, it is actually like a maze. I'm regularly amazed to be shown new weird stairways around. Did you know, we have half storeys? I'm sure there is a plan, but an M.C. #Escher painting will make more sense, I guess.

  5. #Museum30 Day 26 - ‘Colleague'
    Today, I'd like to use the occasion to give a shout out to all dear #curator colleagues in #museums and #herbaria who take care of the human heritage, discover new aspects, help to interpret it, make #exhibitions happen and share the cool things to know, often with little pay and much pressure. #museodon

  6. #Museum30 Day 25 - ‘Candle'
    Although it would make my working place much nicer, having candles in a #herbarium, a large collection of dry #plants, would be a bit of a safety issue.
    We prefer things like specimens of the #candletree (#Senna alata) instead. It's called like that because it has bright yellow flowers in long-stemmed upright racemes that makes it look like a candles. The species is mainly distributed from Central to South America.

  7. #Museum30 Day 24 - ‘On screen'
    I haven't been on screen as like TV so far, but I did a small video for the #NHMLondon on #peanuts. It was supposed to be a short video, so we had to focus on one specific aspect. I would have loved to tell more.
    youtube.com/watch?v=OLu1oW6rRr

  8. #Museum30 Day 23 - ‘Collage'
    #Herbarium specimens are made for #science or #teaching nowadays. However, having plant collections was something like a nice #hobby to show around in the past, maybe similar to collecting stamps, baseball cards or car models.
    The #NHMLondon also has some of those collections, which have much more of an ornamental focus. Quite often, other material was added to make it look prettier, which then is like a #collage of beautiful #plants
    #mastoart

  9. Day 17 of #Museum30 is #Origin

    Ice Age wolf DNA revealed that dogs can trace their ancestry from two separate wolf populations.

    Dogs are known to originated from the grey wolf, with domestication occuring during the last Ice Age, at least 15,000 years ago from two separate wolf populations - one in the East (Asia) and one in the Middle East.

    Paper: Bergström et al., (2022) nature.com/articles/s41586-022 Open Access paper.

    Image by Jessica Rae Peto