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@mike Hey, that turned out really well! Almost a decade later, the Great Hall still feels so empty without the Mamenchisaurus in it. Now we have a T. rex skeleton in the museum (permanently), but it is squeezed into one of the smaller side rooms - management insists we keep the Great Hall free (empty) for weddings, don't you know. Of course, the best people would rather get married under Mamenchisauruses.
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Wollaton Hall was filmed as Batman's abode Wayne Manor in The Dark Knight Rises (2012). So, we were inspired to do something a bit different in our new gallery – an exhibit of superheroes and comic book characters inspired by animals and plants. There are lots!
#Turtles #TMNT #NottNatHist #WollatonHall #Museum #display #nature
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Boxes of pressed plants from our herbarium collection on their way to display in our new 'Curating Nature' gallery.
#NottNatHist #museum #WollatonHall #nature #plants #herbarium
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Aye aye! Last week @Birdhousetaxidermy was in to do some restoration of specimens going on display in our new gallery, including this aye-aye skeleton.
#NottNatHist #museum #aye-aye #ayeaye #WollatonHall #skeleton #restoration
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The displays in our new 'Curating Nature' gallery are gradually taking shape. This section is about geological collections. For each type of collection in this gallery there will be a 'behind the scenes' section to represent storage with objects en mass, juxtaposed with a 'display' section to interpret the collection and highlight key objects and stories.
#NottNatHist #Museum #geology #collections #WollatonHall #rocks
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I've been completely preoccupied this year with a new gallery at the Nottingham Natural History Museum, #WollatonHall.
The new gallery is called 'Curating Nature' and will explore the full gamut of natural history collections including spirit specimens, osteological material, dried and pinned invertebrates, Blaschka glass models, herbarium specimens, geological material, and taxidermy... all to answer the most-asked question by visitors to the museum: is it real?
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Our technicians had a whale of a time today moving skeletons into Wollaton Hall for our new 'Curating Nature' gallery. I took this photo on porpoise.
#NottNatHist #museum #WollatonHall #skeleton #architecture #nature #Nottingham
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Yesterday we were visited by PhD student Archie Henderson from the University of Reading who was collecting data from several of our fossil vertebrates including this ichthyosaur.
#NottNatHist #museum #FossilFriday #ichthyosaur #WollatonHall #paleontology #science
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The ichthyosaur jigsaw puzzle continues. Some substantially complete ribs are taking shape thanks to the meticulous work of @WitcherClo
#NotNatHist #Museum #WollatonHall #ichthyosaur #FossilFriday #palaeontology
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Book Launch - “Wollaton Park”, tracing the park’s evolution from medieval farmland and private hunting estate into the cherished public park and nature reserve we know today.
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This week, Nottingham Trent University lecturer Fred Owen and student Kirsty visited our fossil collections to study our Pleistocene canids.
It helped to have an articulated modern dog skeleton at hand for comparative purposes!
#NottNatHist #Museum #WollatonHall #skeleton #research #palaeontology
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Marine reptile fun! @WitcherClo led an outreach event at Wollaton Hall #NottNatHist Museum a few weeks ago. We challenged visitors to ID the fossil bones of an ichthyosaur and work out where they fit in the skeleton.
#WollatonHall #Fossils #Ichthyosaur #reptile #palaeontology #museum #FossilFriday
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Gyracanthus fish spines from the Carboniferous Period on display in the #NottNatHist Museum.
#FossilFriday #fossil #fish #paleontology #museum #WollatonHall
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Sunday read: ‘To get to the ceiling is a passage of rights – up through a labyrinth of scaffolding and out onto a temporary deck. It’s such a privilege to be up close and personal to the painting.’ www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal... #art #conservation #wollatonhall #heritage #history #myth
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A worm's eye view of a Mamenchisaurus skeleton (a cast with some parts modelled) at Wollaton Hall's temporary Dinosaurs of China exhibition in 2017.
The Great Hall subsequently felt very empty!
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Curator @AdamStuartSmith hanging with a sloth skeleton in a Nottingham Natural History Museum store room. We've been behind the scenes picking specimens to go on display in a new gallery about the diversity of natural history collections. This will include a section on bones and mounted skeletons.
#NottNatHist #museum #WollatonHall #sloth #skeleton @museum #nature
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Working in the #NottNatHist museum (@GeorgeTheGorilla) this week with @WitcherClo we were surprised to find fossil fish glow under UV light. This specimen of a Lower Jurassic Dapedium fish is a good example.
Can any chemists tell me why though? Original hydroxyapatite and/or diagenetic calcite in the scales? Or could it be some sort of varnish!?
#FossilFriday #WollatonHall #museum #science #chemistry #UV #paleontology
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Today we went to the #WollatonHall #CarShow in #Nottingham https://wollatonhall.org.uk/nottingham-motor-show/
We were lucky that it was dry, as the forecast wasn't good.
There were loads of nice cars with cool paint jobs, and some nice (but expensive) food.