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Under the skin
As visitors to the Museum will know, we have a load of iPads (we were only the second museum in the world to incorporate them into displays) asking our visitors to engage in some controversial or...
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Is domestication ethical?
Necessary or Unnatural? Much of human society involves domesticated animals, from food and transport to pets and clothes. Is it wrong to breed individuals together to select for desirable traits?...
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Can museums lie?
Accuracy or Information? Can we lie about what a specimen is or where it came from? Would it make a difference to you if we deliberately mis-labelled a specimen? If we wrote interesting factual labels...
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Should we clone extinct animals?
…is the latest question we are asking on our iPad displays. So far many living species have been cloned, for various reasons (just to see if we can and replacing lost pets being two of them....
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Really rare? Making British decisions in conservation
Should species like red squirrels be protected in England when they are common in Europe? This is the newest question we are asking in our QRator iPad displays. There is a limited amount of money...
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Should we only be conserving things that have a potential human benefit?
I think we know what our visitors will think about this latest QRator question on the iPads, but maybe some non-natural history fans will have different opinions… Conserving cures? Should we only be...
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Ecology or exploitation?
Is ecotourism an answer to local environmental and biodiversity conservation? That’s the latest question on our iPads for the QRator project. Have you ever done any ecotourism? How did it feel – was...
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The Museum reopened nearly a year ago now and we are still happily experimenting with the different things we can do in our new home. One of the big innovations was the QRator programme on our iPads,...
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Grant Museum wins Museums and Heritage Award for Excellence
Last night a contingent from UCL including colleagues from Museums and Public Engagement, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and Heritage Without Borders headed down to the illustrious premises of 8...
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The future of science exhibitions in museums
Last Thursday I was invited along to talk at a panel about the future of science exhibitions in museums at Imperial College’s 21st Anniversary celebration of the MSc Science Communication course. I was...
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