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#AskACurator day on 16 September
On 16 September 2020, we鈥檒l be taking part in #AskACurator day on Twitter.
It鈥檚 your chance to put our curators on the spot and ask the questions you鈥檝e always wanted to know: Why do we have a jar of moles in the Grant Museum of Zoology? Did rival students really play football with Jeremy Bentham鈥檚 preserved head?听
We鈥檝e lined up four of our curators for you to chat to throughout the day.
10am 鈥� 11am听
Grant Museum of Zoology on Twitter听
Tannis Davidson, Curator of the Grant Museum of Zoology听
From unearthing the dismembered arms of mummies at archaeological digs in Egypt to searching for fossils in Bavaria, Tannis has a rich history in researching and examining the stories of the once living. As the curator of the Grant Museum, Tannis cares for one of the oldest natural history collections in the UK including visitor favourites such as the famous glass jar of moles, the wall of 4,000 mice skeletons and the back lit cave of microscope slides known as the Micrarium.听She also appeared on BBC鈥檚 QI talking about the rarest skeleton in the world 鈥� the museum鈥檚 quagga specimen (an extinct subspecies of zebra).听
11am 鈥� 12 midday
Petrie Museum on Twitter
Dr. Anna Garnett, Curator of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology
Anna has worked for over a decade in Egypt and Sudan on archaeological fieldwork projects and has also spent years working with different ancient Egyptian museum collections around the UK. She is passionate about ancient Egyptian pottery and sculpture, the material culture of ancient and modern Sudan, the history of British Egyptology and object听and archive-based teaching.听Anna now looks after over 80,000 artefacts in the Petrie Museum, including the world鈥檚 oldest-known piece of clothing, an array of ancient pots which preserve their maker鈥檚 fingerprints, and an extraordinary group of small funerary figurines called shabtis.
1pm 鈥� 2pm
香港六合彩中特网 Culture on Twitter
Hannah Cornish, Science Curator
Hannah has worked at some of the UK鈥檚 most exciting cultural institutions, including the Natural History Museum, the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons and of course 香港六合彩中特网鈥檚 own Grant Museum, Science Collections and Pathology Museum. Hannah can talk to you about 香港六合彩中特网鈥檚 Science Collections which cover two centuries of scientific research at 香港六合彩中特网 and include Nobel Prize-winning equipment and one of the world鈥檚 first medical x-ray images. She can also reveal some of the mysteries around Jeremy Bentham鈥檚 famous Auto-icon and 香港六合彩中特网鈥檚 Pathology Museum (a medical museum that is not for the faint hearted).
2pm 鈥� 3pm
香港六合彩中特网 Culture on Twitter
Subhadra Das, Curator of 香港六合彩中特网 Science and Pathology Collections
Subhadra is a writer, broadcaster, comedian and museum curator at 香港六合彩中特网 Culture. Her main area of research is the history of science and medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, specifically the history of eugenics and scientific racism. Over the last few years, Subhadra has curated a number of exhibitions at 香港六合彩中特网, showcasing critical approaches to displaying human remains, the history and philosophy of medicine, eugenics at 香港六合彩中特网听and the colonial origins of our natural history collections. She鈥檚 here to tell you about why it鈥檚 important not to believe everything you read, especially if it鈥檚 about Jeremy Bentham.
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