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Grant Museum of Zoology
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@ucl.ac.uk’s Grant Museum of Zoology is one of the UK’s oldest natural history collections and home to some of the world’s rarest specimens.

Find out more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/ucl-grant-museum-zoology
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Grant Museum of Zoology @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social · 29d
See the latest news and information about our current events: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/ucl-grant-museum-zoology/whats-grant-museum
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Join us for Amazing Anatomy this Saturday 17 October 2026 with our amazing @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social colleagues!
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🔍 Calling all curious young scientists and families! 🔍

Join us for Amazing Anatomy, an interactive family event hosted by the UCL Centre for Integrative Anatomy.

📅 17 October 2026

🎟️ Tickets available now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/family-eve...

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October 15, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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A new display across @ucl.ac.uk’s library and museum sites celebrates students’ passions in and outside of the classroom. See “Beyond the Book”, a series of photographic portraits taken by Institute of Education Subject Liaison Librarian John Iona. #UCL200
New display across UCL’s library and museum sites reveals students’ passions beyond the classroom
A new series of photographic portraits displayed across UCL’s libraries and museums showcases students’ personal passions alongside their academic studies.
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October 7, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Planning a visit? Find out more about entry, opening times, research visits and more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/grant-museum-zoology/visit-ucl-grant-museum-zoology
October 7, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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See the latest news and information about our current events: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/ucl-grant-museum-zoology/whats-grant-museum
October 1, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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Welcome to @ucl.ac.uk! We are home to 100,000 specimens from every continent, every ocean, and every animal group. Visit us and find out more about our collection. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/ucl-grant-museum-zoology
Interior of the Grant Museum of Zoology.
September 28, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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See the latest news and information about our current events: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/ucl-grant-museum-zoology/whats-grant-museum
September 2, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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See the latest news and information about our current events: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/ucl-grant-museum-zoology/whats-grant-museum
August 4, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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Whilst most sensible people were snoozing at 6.50am today, I was on #BBCRadio4 #TodayProgramme, talking about wasps, heatwaves & how you can help #HamOrJam #WaspPicnicSurvey2026

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Where have all the wasps gone this summer?
And why you should let them share your picnic ham and jam.
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July 31, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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We have teamed up with researchers in robotics and autonomous systems to bring a new digital experience into the museum this summer school holiday! Visit the multi-sensory 3D pop-up between 11-15 August.
A visitor examining a display case at the Grant Museum of Zoology.
July 30, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Our specimens were showcased on the green carpet for the premiere of How to Live on Earth, a new feature documentary exploring humanity's relationship with the natural world. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-coll...
The Grant Museum team pose beside a fossil skull display at the How to Live on Earth premiere, standing in front of a green backdrop.
July 28, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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Pleased to share Benedict Cumberbatch meeting our walrus baculum at the recent premiere of ‘How to Live on Earth’ with Dan O’Neill:

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Guess the Species with Dan O’Neill | How to Live on Earth
YouTube video by Open Planet
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July 14, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Join the ballot for a chance to visit and draw specimens from our collections in celebration of 200 years of Zoological Society London. Find out more here:
Drawing After Hours: Celebrating 200 years of ZSL
Join the ballot for a chance to visit UCL Grant Museum of Zoology after hours and draw specimens from our collection.
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July 13, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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Planning a visit? Find out more about entry, opening times, research visits and more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/grant-museum-zoology/visit-ucl-grant-museum-zoology
July 8, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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See the latest news and information about our current events: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/ucl-grant-museum-zoology/whats-grant-museum
July 2, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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Our exhibit has been featured in @uclnews.bsky.social : www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ju...
From nanomaterials to alligator jaws: two UCL displays featured at Royal Society exhibition
Two UCL-led exhibits featuring dinosaur skulls, chameleon heads, and tiny materials transforming healthcare are among 13 flagship displays open to the public at the 2026 Royal Society Summer Science E...
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June 29, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Just a normal day at work with @tannisdavidson.bsky.social and the team from @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social getting thigns for our @royalsociety.org #SummerScience exihibition to the Royal Society...
June 29, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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A long and fun day of setting up our @royalsociety.org #SummerScience exhibit with @leaveylab.bsky.social @tannisdavidson.bsky.social and many other from @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social and @unisouthampton.bsky.social. Opening tomorrow!
June 29, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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Hollywood royalty in the museum this morning!
Jeff Goldblum surrounded by Grant Museum specimens looking at a mosquito in resin Jeff Goldblum sitting at a desk full of specimens in the Grant Museum Group shot in the Micrarium Group hug in the Micrarium - Grant Museum staff and honorary curator Jeff Goldblum
June 26, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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We were thrilled to be on the green carpet last night for the world premiere of ‘How to Live on Earth’ – a new feature documentary presented by Benedict Cumberbatch. The film, opening during #LCAW2026, explores how we can build a future that works with nature, not against it. @uclnews.bsky.social
UCL’s Grant Museum curatorial team - Hannah Cornish, Tannis Davidson and Alice Holloway - stand behind a museum thylacine skull on the green carpet in front of media booth at the premiere of the film ‘How to Live on Earth’
June 23, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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How do students experience the climate crisis, and what role can universities play in driving change?

As #LCAW2026 begins, @profmarkmaslin.bsky.social joins a discussion on climate anxiety, activism and action, issues at the heart of geography.

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June 22, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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The moles are tremendously honoured to have inspired this poem. We like to think their ghosts are friends too.

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kymdeyn.bsky.social Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · Jun 19
Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish
Jar of Moles (Grant Zoology Museum, London) crittery dozened things each pink snout snootling formaldehyde up it's bamboozler which poor fuck had to collect them out in the dirt with a shovel here moley moley BONK . I’m only gonna put you in a jar and let tourists go eww at you for the next two hundred years god look at me for two hundred years I’d do anything look mummy, one of them’s licking the glass— honey it's dead velvety sweet sardined hope their ghosts are friends teeming in a molish afterlife dark and circular everything worm- flavoured tasty buggy snackerels what if you smashed the mole jar? vinegared moles spilling out flaccid & swimming everyone screaming someone saying Freddy you gotta get us a new jar of moles— —goddammit boss I never asked for any of this A jar of wet preserved moles, the jar is very full and all the little hands, feet and snoots mark it as both upsetting and fascinating
June 19, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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We’re really excited to be a part of this! Join us @royalsociety.org for cutting-edge scientific activities, specimens and more!
laurabporro.bsky.social Laura Porro @laurabporro.bsky.social · Jun 16
Our exhibit "Immortalising Natural History in 3D" will be one of of the flagship exhibits at the @royalsociety.org #SummerScience Exhibition from June 30th - July 5th! @ucl-c4ia.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ucllifesciences.bsky.social with @leaveylab.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social
June 16, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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Outreach day @ucllifesciences.bsky.social #ScienceFair.

Wasp nests, wasp paper art, wasp #VR!

With @cintiaoi.bsky.social @femi-benny.bsky.social @idrisadams.bsky.social, Alex Cequeira D’Araujo, Louisa Stefani, Peter Ayres & #DatascapesRealities
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June 13, 2026 at 6:38 PM