🔎Writing from the Field: Diaries, letters & other ways scientists & explorers in the field have recorded their experiences.
🔎Whales, Science & Conservation: Whales & the change in behaviour around their study & conservation.
🔎Ordering & Naming Nature: Evolution of naming & classifying nature.
Diversity: It's in our nature. Happy Pride 2026 from NHM Library and Archives! (All images taken from artwork in our collections.) #Pride #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2026
Friday 26 June 2026, 11.00 - 15.00.
Location: Lasting Impressions Gallery.
(Free, drop in.)
Visitors will have the opportunity to enter this collection space, speak with the Library and Archives team, and view a selection of material from across the collections.
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A centenary celebration of Aubrey Williams (1926-1990), whose work was seen as a radical fusion of contemporary British and Guyanese art. The NHM Library holds 11 paintings of birds by Williams which he completed between 1978 and 1980. #AubreyWilliamsCentenary #NatureInArt #100Years
She published extensively, and was a highly skilled scientific artist, producing detailed illustrations of sea creatures to accompany her papers, field notes, and correspondence
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If you are visiting the Natural History Museum, here is an extra reason to visit the Treasures Gallery.
On display until early June is the latest hand-coloured engraved plate from our copy of John James Audubon's 'The Birds of America' (1827-1838).
Plate 192 Great Grey Shrike, or Butcher Bird.
Our Archives show that displayed at ground level was a sperm whale skeleton, the same specimen that currently hangs on display in the Mammals Hall.
This specimen is a male, collected from Sandside Bay near Thurso, Scotland in July 1863 and donated by Captain D. Macdonald, Royal Engineers.
New additions to our library book collections 🎉
⬆️Learn more about our collections and how to visit us via the link in our bio.
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#Mammals #Minerals #Fossils #Palaeontology #BookSky #BlueSkyBooks
Today, visitors to our central Hintze Hall are greeted by the wonder of a real blue whale skeleton, a female, named Hope.
But what would visitors in 1901 have seen in this same location, then called the Central Hall?
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Marine biologist, Isabella Gordon was born #OTD in 1901. Appointed Assistant Keeper with a responsibility for Crustacea in 1928, Gordon was one of the first female scientists to work at the Museum.
