Our collections
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Clare Valentine's desert island specimens - 12/05/2003 (video)
With responsibility for a quarter of a million sponge specimens, what are Clare Valentine’s favourites of the Museum’s collections?
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Desert islands specimens - Andy Currant - 14/05/2003 (video)
How was it that Mammal Curator Andy Currant bonded with the skull of an extinct giant ground sloth?
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Miranda Lowe's desert island specimens - 11/08/2003 (video)
Zoologist Miranda Lowe introduces us to a giant relative of the woodlouse, the largest land crab and an alien crab invading the Thames.
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Ollie Crimmen's desert island specimens - 07/10/2003 (video)
Find out which three of the Museum’s 70 million specimens fish curator Ollie Crimmen finds particularly fascinating.
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The Gilded Canopy - unseen beauty above our heads - 05/01/2006 (video)
Where can you find a major art display in the Museum that's rarely noticed? It's on the ceiling. Join us to learn more.
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Norman McLeod's desert island specimens - 01/09/2004 (video)
Find out why the Museum specimens that mean the most to Norman Macleod represent the history of how he came to be a palaeontologist.
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The art of plant mounting - 16/08/2006 (video)
The museum is host to over 6 million plant specimens, Andrea Hallaway describes the processes each specimen goes through.
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Richard Sabin's desert island specimens - 01/05/2003 (video)
Every Museum scientist has a favourite specimen from our 70-million-strong collection. Join us to delve into mammal curator, Richard Sabin's top three.
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Taking great photos with basic equipment - 03/12/2003 (video)
Get top tips on photography from award-winning photographer Nick Oliver.
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Stripped to the bone - 20/06/2006 (video)
See for yourself how the Museum's scientist Jo Cooper gets from whole bird to cleaned skeleton, using dissection and flesh-eating beetles to get down to the bones.
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Behind the scenes with Clare Valentine - 09/03/2007 (video)
Ever wondered what it is like to spend a day working behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum? Two students found out.
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The science of detecting fakes and forgeries - 28/11/2003 (video)
Explore some of the scientific approaches to revealing fake antiquities and the true history of suspect pieces.
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Murder at the Museum - 29/12/2004 (video)
Who murdered Museum curator Jenny Hanniver? Only you have the answer.
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