Curatorial Assistants taking you behind the scenes at Manchester Museum. Tweets from Rachel Petts, Susan Martin and Diana Arzuza Buelvas.
Manchester, England
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Who is using our collection and what for?
An A level Art student really inspired after a visit to the stores. Final project👏👏 *A: “insects arranged across multiple pages reflecting a journey from shadows and incomplete forms to the splendid variety of insect life!”
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ALT The piece based on the topic of ‘change’ by Maia Mistry
From behind the scenes in Entomology #NationalVolunteerWeek. The support given by all volunteers is helping us to better maintain and keep our entomological collections and increase their
usefulness and value. A huge thank you to all!
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#insects 🦋🦋🪲🪲 and conservation stories from Central and South America also made it to the event. Celebrating #biodiversity in the Neotropic 🥳. I was feeling closer to home 😍. Many thanks to the visitors for the great comments!! @Panwildlife
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The insects have landed in the new galleries 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝and getting ready for the new @McrMuseum reopening in February 2023 #insects #entomology #bees
ALT Butterflies and birds from Sri Lanka_ South Asia Gallery
ALT Bees and insects _ Belonging Gallery
Great visit and good conversations with the artist @MeganPowell122 and the colleague Alison Criddle @MuseumDevNW about #pollinators, moths and hoverflies, in Entomology @McrMuseum. @carbon_literacy @rootsandbranches
ALT @MeganPowell122 visit to Entomology, Manchester Museum
Supporting conservation programs with historical data 🦋, description of species new to science 🪲🕷️🕷️, account of collections, news from the department, collaboration with researchers and more in the blog:
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@BritishSpiders @McrMuseum @tanyptera
ALT https://entomologymanchester.wordpress.com/2022/08/31/publications-related-to-the-manchester-museums-entomology-department-an-2021-22-update/
Type specimens are the primary and unique references for all known species names. @McrMuseum holds ~22,000 types representing over 8,000 species names of insects, birds, liverworts, corals, minerals ...
More in our blog:
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ALT Types specimens of Tortoise beetles (Cassidinae) @McrMuseum
ALT Holotype of wooldridgeite, a mineral containing calcium, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium; named after James Wooldridge (1923-1995) @McrMuseum
