Recent projects and partnerships

  • Patrick Campbell, Ollie Crimmen, Lorraine Cornish and Brian Rosen, who work at the Museum
    Museum lives

    Producing 50 in-depth video interviews of Museum staff, including curators, scientific researchers and front-of-house workers, capturing the experience and practice of a generation. A research project in its own right, the archive will be of significant interest to historians of museology and taxonomy. Find out more.

  • Ursus maritimus, polar bear
    Scott of the Antarctic

    The Museum's collections hold a variety of specimens from Captain Scott’s famous Antarctic expeditions. Discover how the CAHR team helped researchers contributing to a exhibition about Scott's expeditions.

  • Sciurus macrourus, long-tailed squirrel.
    Wallich and Indian Natural History

    Find out more about how the CAHR team are contributing to a project to reunite historically and scientifically significant plant specimens with the correspondence and illustrations of Nathaniel Wallich.

Contact us 

For further information about the Centre for Arts and Humanities Research at the Museum, please contact:

Julie Harvey BSc, DipLib, FRES
Manager, Centre for Arts and Humanities Research
Tel: 020 7942 5241   
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