Art Choke Heart

My experiences, observations and amusement in the museum world from my SOCL2 Traineeship to my job as a Collections Assistant

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We wrote a blog post about @doorsopendaysscotland tours we gave at the @hunterianglasgow store at Kelvin Hall! It's on the Hunterian website at the mo...

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Buda-bing! Packed. #museumstorage #pots #peru

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First day back in Zoology. Crystal boxing some scary fishy friends and shark jaws

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Hypnotised by the pretty things #museumstorage #KelvinHall #shells

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This is bigger than my head #ammonite (I think) #KelvinHall #fossils #museumstorage

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Me doing my thing at work, trying to hear the sea through a giant starfish #KelvinHall #The Herald #museumstorage

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Was trying to keep my brain warm in the store yesterday so I could accurately catalogue the accession numbers of the brachiopods. As you can tell by my face, it totally worked. #brachiopods #museumdocumentation #museumstorage #cold

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Shattering old glass cabinets at work in order to create space in the store to start processing and packing specimens - exciting times!

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My mammoth teeth with an actual Mammoth's tooth!

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Another matchbox replaced by an acid free card tray - better for the rocks but not as colourful!

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Pretty matchboxes and another royal looking container from work. Geologists put rocks in whatever's at hand!

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Lovely things I saw a few years back at the Horniman Museum

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Getting ready to "Hoover the bear" - Ben though this sounded like a terrible euphemism. It's not. #Zoology #UniversityofGlasgow #taxidermy #bear

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World's oldest football. Found stuck in the beams at Stirling Castle behind a ceiling built in 1540 so it's older than that! Not sure I like the astro turf background but there are a lot of great things at The Smith Museum in Stirling.

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Pretty hand written labels - hard to read but nice to look at. #geology

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More strange finds amongst the #geology collection at work. #Capote

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Some interesting finds amongst the fossils at work which will be getting nice new low acid card trays #matchboxes #geology #museumstorage