Learn how to carve and print your own Japanese woodblock inspired by geological charts and maps in this 2 day workshop on 18 and 19 October. Book here: www.hmag.org.uk/event/memoir... @hastingsbc.bsky.social
29.09.2025 14:40 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Exploring Chainstitch workshop on 29 November is now open for booking! In this workshop, Emily Johns will introduce you to the many ways in which the humble chainstitch can be worked & guide you through several different types.
Book here: www.hmag.org.uk/event/explor... @hastingsbc.bsky.social
08.10.2025 07:54 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
The Dinosaur on your Doorstep 2025
We made a film in July 2025 to document continuing celebration around the subject of Hollington's local dinosaur in #TheDinosaurOnYourDoorstep. Huge thanks to all involved and to our funders @royalsociety.org @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_fl... @hastingsbc.bsky.social
08.09.2025 11:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
A nice record of a continuing project that I initiated in 2022.
08.09.2025 17:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The willingness to engage with recycling initiatives is already outstripping the infrastructure needed to support it. To me, this underlines the need to untangle our reliance on plastics and develop circular economies at an industrial level.
28.08.2025 12:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
No to appeasement!
08.08.2025 21:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Curator of the True Crime Museum Joel Griggs
Are you an avid crime buff 🕵️?
From 10:30am tomorrow to coincide with the final weekend of the Agatha Christie: The Queen of Crime🕵️♀️ exhibition, meet local crime writers, explore their work & get your books signed.
www.hmag.org.uk/event/crime-...
@hastingsbc.bsky.social #CrimeWritersDay #Hastings
08.08.2025 09:30 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Hastings Museum & Art Gallery
Platypus
There are some weird & wonderful objects in the Museum’s stored collections. One of them is a strange egg-laying mammal that looks like a mix of a duck, beaver & an otter.
The platypus is now on temporary display in our natural history gallery.
youtu.be/jp4X4Krl-DY @hastingsbc.bsky.social
30.07.2025 10:44 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Crime Writers Day – Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Are you an avid crime buff 🕵️♂️?
From 10:30am on 9 August to coincide with the final weekend of the Agatha Christie: The Queen of Crime🕵️♀️ exhibition, meet local crime writers, explore their work & get your books signed.
www.hmag.org.uk/event/crime-...
@hastingsbc.bsky.social #CrimeWritersDay #Hastings
30.07.2025 10:14 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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There are still places available for 'Your Place: Researching the History of Your Home'.
In this interactive session, learn about what resources you can use at the museum to research the history of your home or where you live.
www.hmag.org.uk/event/your-p...
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11.06.2025 11:23 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Have you seen our newly revamped #Dinosaurs gallery yet? It's full of beautiful artwork by Ellie Fryer illustrating the stories behind the amazing fossils th...
Ellie Fryer Hastings Museum Dinosaur exhibition V5 4k
Have you seen our newly revamped Dinosaurs gallery yet? It's full of beautiful artwork by Ellie Fryer based on the fossils that tell us what Hastings was like 140 million years ago during the #Cretaceous period.
#FossilFriday #Dinosaurs #Geology @hastingsbc.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/1x0MC...
06.06.2025 08:01 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Our favourite exhibits in Agatha Christie exhibition has to be the recreation of the Orient Express interior, complete with real train noises!
#AgathaChristie #TheQueenOfCrime #Hastings @hastingsbc.bsky.social #FREE
27.05.2025 17:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Triceratops brown horn showing blood vessels
Triceratops brown horn showing blood vessels
Triceratops brown horn showing cross section with scale
Have you seen episode 1 of the new
@BBCEarth #WalkingWithDinosaurs? 🦖It features Triceratops, found in the USA & Canada. In our collection we have this section of brow horn with well preserved blood vessels. How it came to be here is a bit of a mystery. #FossilFriday
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30.05.2025 11:54 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Each month @originalgcg.bsky.social publishes a blog newsletter. This month has some very special content and opportunities.
02.05.2025 19:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bad Bling
Posted on by geocurators Written Lu Allington-Jones (Principal Conservator) and Robin Hansen (Senior Curator, Minerals and Gems). Most gemstones are chosen for their hardness and stabilit…
In our latest blog "Bad Bling," Lu Allington-Jones and Robin Hansen delve into the challenges of using certain minerals in jewellery due to their instability, toxicity, or fragility!💎
Give it a read here 👇
geocollnews.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/b...
15.04.2025 10:19 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Published in 1975, the book The Evolution and Ecology of the Dinosaurs 🦕 by Bev Halstead is now 50 years old. The illustrations may be dated, but they represent an important stage in science, and in the representation of dinosaurs, as one of the first #dinosaur books in printed colour #FossilFriday
11.04.2025 08:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Six Questions for the GCG Committee – Duncan Murdock
Posted on by geocurators Written by Duncan Murdock who works at Oxford University Museum of Natural History and is the editor of GCG’s Journal ‘Geological Curator’. 1. T…
Check out our latest blog post by Dr Duncan Murdock! 🦖
We asked him six questions about his day-to-day work as Earth Collections Manager at Oxford University Museum of Natural History and editor of GCG’s Journal ‘Geological Curator’.
Give it a read here 👇
geocollnews.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/s...
24.03.2025 10:28 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
GCG are proud to be supporting Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025! 🌟
#NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences.
To read more about this initiative, please visit: www.neurodiversityweek.com/introduction
19.03.2025 13:39 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
EDI Symposium 2025 - Geological Collections Group
The Geological Collections Group is for anyone who is interested in geological collections. Membership is open to all and is reasonably priced.
If you're interested in exploring inclusion and neurodiversity, particularly in Geoscience and museums, we invite you to join GCG's EDI Symposium on April 9th - 11th.
The event is free, and you don't need to be a GCG member - everyone is welcome!
Register at: www.geocurator.org/events/182-e...
19.03.2025 13:39 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Are you interested in learning more about cutting-edge techniques for visualising and analysing extinct & extant organisms?🦖
Then join us for GCG's Digital Morphology Workshop at the University of Leeds on April 1st, 2025!
Secure your spot before March 24th here: www.geocurator.org/events/183-d...
17.03.2025 09:51 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
News from the Sector – March 2025
News from the Sector is a monthly blog series featuring the latest geological and palaeontological news, jobs, exhibitions, and conferences. If you or your institution has anything they would like …
News from the Sector, March 2025:
▪GCG’s EDI Symposium
▪Exhibitions: Hidden in Stone (Southampton), Breaking Ground (Oxford), Stories from DEEP TIME (Hastings)
▪Lectures: Unnatural History Museum & Palaeoverse
▪Publications: Geoconservation Research
Read our latest blog post to find out more! 👇
11.03.2025 10:43 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Page from Fitton's 1833 book 'A Geological Sketch of the Vicinity of Hastings' showing the teeth originally published as Iguanodon by Gideon Mantell in 1825.
Iguana skull from South America. Accession number HASMG:SK.89
Close up of a modern iguana's teeth.
#OTD today is the 200th anniversary of the reading Gideon Mantell's paper to @royalsociety.org naming Iguanodon on 10 Feb 1825. The name comes from the similarity of the dinosaur's teeth to those of the Iguana. Dinosaurs with similar teeth found in #Hastings were also given this name in later years.
10.02.2025 09:00 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
From 2pm to 4pm, 23 Feb meet SOCO artists behind the beautiful and diverse artworks in Stories from DEEP TIME. Over the last year they've worked extremely hard to research & create a series of artworks inspired by the geological collection at the museum and our local geology. @hastingsbc.bsky.social
09.02.2025 09:00 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Meet Siân Evans, a working coppersmith who investigates the ancient metalworking techniques found in archaeological relics from around the world.
Siân will be part of our annual Relics Roadshow on 15 February 10-4pm.
www.hmag.org.uk/event/relics...
@hastingsbc.bsky.social
03.02.2025 11:27 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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