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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Spooky Spotlight – The Witching hour
Welcome to a week of Spooky Spotlights! To celebrate Halloween we will be delving into the Museum’s collections and putting the spotlight on the terrifyingly gruesome & frighteningly peculiar objects that lurk in the stores… An enduring Halloween icon is the witch, so the … Continue reading
Spooky Spotlight – Bats Galore
Welcome to a week of Spooky Spotlights! To celebrate Halloween we will be delving into the Museum’s collections and putting the spotlight on the terrifyingly gruesome & frighteningly peculiar objects that lurk in the stores… Since Bram Stoker’s Gothic horror ‘Dracula’ was published in … Continue reading
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Spooky Spotlight – A Devil in Disguise?
Welcome to a week of Spooky Spotlights! To celebrate Halloween we will be delving into the Museum’s collections and putting the spotlight on the terrifyingly gruesome & frighteningly peculiar objects that lurk in the stores… For today’s spooky spotlight the light shines closer to … Continue reading
Spooky Spotlight – Deathly Depiction
Welcome to a week of Spooky Spotlights! To celebrate Halloween we will be delving into the Museum’s collections and putting the spotlight on the terrifyingly gruesome & frighteningly peculiar objects that lurk in the stores… In Mexico, instead of Halloween, the Day of the … Continue reading
Spooky Spotlight – Bit of a Shocker
Welcome to a week of Spooky Spotlights! To celebrate Halloween we will be delving into the Museum’s collections and putting the spotlight on the terrifyingly gruesome & frighteningly peculiar objects that lurk in the stores… The first spooky spotlight falls on this ‘shocking’ curiosity. … Continue reading
The Imagination Museum
Last weekend at the Zoology Museum we welcomed the Made by Katie Green Dance Company as part of the DanceLive Festival for very special performances of the piece ‘The Imagination Museum.’ Curatorial Assistant Laura tells us more about this quirky … Continue reading
Sketching skeletons and other curious creatures
In this blog Bibo Weber-Keeley, an Aberdeen artist and HND student of Art and Design at North East Scotland College, tells us about her drawing experience at the Zoology Museum on 17 September 2014. Three weeks into starting the Art and Design … Continue reading
Discovering the Past – An Imprint of the Bronze Age
Originally posted on National Fund for Acquisitions:
Early Bronze Age mould for casting flat bronze axes, acquired by University of Aberdeen Museums in 1984 with an NFA grant of £75 When you think about the Bronze Age you think about…
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