🔬 Take a closer look at some of our tiniest specimens with the return of My Micrarium Masterpiece tomorrow (27 April)! 🎨 This free family workshop led by illustrator Lucia Vinti plays with colours & light. Drop in 12 noon-2pm - read more: bit.ly/4bgUHo5 #kidsinmuseums

Pleased to welcome Jon Bridle and Julia Bressmer to Grant Museum of Zoology today - the proud former parents/donors of our new black grouse specimens (affectionately known as the ‘Grice’). 🪶

In this episode curator Hannah Cornish discusses our new Seychelles frog display and @jimlabisko’s bioacoustics research. UCL Research UCL Biosciences

Four UCL Culture museums and collections have been awarded a total of £2.4 million in funding by Research England/UK Research and Innovation in support of their commitment to the curation of world-class collections. bit.ly/3U8JBdw

Our latest Meet the Expert is now live! Meet Jim Labisko 💚🐸🦎🐍🦇 💙😷 4/4
of the Division of Biosciences at UCL. UCL Biosciences 🪴

Read more here.. ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences-f…

Four UCL museums and collections including the Grant Museum of Zoology and the Petrie Museum are to benefit from £2.4m in Research England funding over the next five years, recognising their contributions to national & international research
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We are delighted to share Research England’s UK Research and Innovation of funding for Grant Museum of Zoology which recognised our contribution to UK & international research.

Read more here: ucl.ac.uk/culture/news/r…

Join us tomorrow (11 April) with Badge Cafe this Easter school holiday - drop in 2-4pm.

Celebrate underappreciated and/or new fauna through badgemaking - all for free! bit.ly/3JdUhTh

#kidsinmuseums #craft

The Museum is closed for UCL’s Easter break but we’re open again April 4th. See you then!

If you're in London and haven't seen the epic awesomeness of the Grant Museum of Zoology's newly renovated displays, get yourself over there (still complete with all your jar-of-moles, wall-of-mice, platypus, Micrarium, thylacine and quagga favourites).

Fantastic day UCL Grant Museum of Zoology using #VirtualReality and #AugmentedReality to raise awareness of #coral preservation and #climatechange on #WorldWaterDay2024

#immersivelearning #VR #AR

Check out the new episode of Jo Durrant's Beautiful Universe for a chat about some very special Grant Museum invertebrates

🌊 Dive into a virtual coral reef at the Museum next Sat 23 March to celebrate World Water Day 2024! Come to our family event exploring reef restoration and the fascinating science behind it. Booking is now live, find full event details on our website: bit.ly/3S1H1Gx

Wasps, bats, deer, worms, owls, buzzards, pigs… who does what?! Join us in learning about biodiversity with our brand new collaborative game: WILD. Sat 24 Feb, 11:00-14:00, FREE. Booking now open: bit.ly/47gXsmV #boardgames #biodiversity #nature #free

How can wasps help herons? How can pigs help butterflies? How can deer help buzzards? Come and play WILD with us and learn all about biodiversity on Sat 24 Feb in the Museum. Full details on our website: bit.ly/47gXsmV #nature #boardgames #camdenfree

Join our next family event! Transport yourself into the future and imagine what flourishing and blossoming habitats will look like with @s_j_hartman's Collage Club this Feb half-term. Booking is now live! More info on our website: bit.ly/3TH3tGg #collage #camdenhalfterm

🦐 We think our new displays are shrimply the best... and tomorrow is your first chance to see them!

Join us Tuesday to Friday 1-5pm and Saturday 11am–5pm.

Read more about tomorrow's reopening: bit.ly/3UqzOBw

📸James Tye

#grantmuseum #museums #free

Flutter over to the Grant Museum soon and see our new invertebrate displays. Re-opening 6 February!

Come and see us Tuesday to Friday 1-5pm and Saturday 11am–5pm, free admission.

Read more about our reopening: bit.ly/3UqzOBw

📸James Tye

#museums #ucl #london

Explore work that UCL Museums are supporting to save endangered environments, and imagine these flourishing habitats through collage, at our first family event of the year with @s_j_hartman. Thurs 15 Feb from 13:30, details on our site: bit.ly/3TH3tGg #creativehalfterm

One of the BEST little museums in London ❤️