Grant Museum, UCL

This is the Tumblr page of the Grant Museum of Zoology. Please use it to share your artwork of the Museum's specimens and comments on your visit. The Museum is open Monday to Saturday, 1-5pm. ucl.ac.uk/museums/zoology

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Very much enjoyed my time at the museum today, took some pics and draw some of them back home :-)

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Soft Pastel & Pencil Sketch - drawn from a photo taken during a great visit to the Grant Museum last week. Wonderful exhibits.

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Very much enjoyed my time at the museum today, took some pics and draw some of them back home :-)

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Very much enjoyed my time at the museum today, took some pics and draw some of them back home :-)

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Astylosternus (Hairy Frog)

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Baby Joey

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Gorilla skeleton and skull.

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A selection of artwork created at our latest Grant Museum drawing class, ‘Drawing Master Class: Seascapes’. Thank you to all the drawers who came along!

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Love observing details in these amazing creature.

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We’re reflecting on our drawers’ skills at looking beyond our specimens and drawing the glasses themselves  - all part of our events for #glassdelusions

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A slightly psychadelic glass drawing creatively designed by a participant at our Drawing Masterclass #glassdelusions #specimens #museumartwork

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Drawn in "museum-illegal" chalk and charcoal from a photo taken of the Four-Horned Antelope Skull during my visit to the Grant Museum. David Oakes https://davidoakesprints.squarespace.com

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A peaceful specimen depicted by one of the budding artists at the Draw It Like Stubbs art workshops over the last three months

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One of the weird and wonderfully strange creatures from the Draw It Like Stubbs art sessions. Here our friend Waldo was creatred through a series of rubbings.

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Another marvellous sketch from one of the three Draw It Like Stubbs art workshops. This creation was produced in under ten minutes as part of a timed activity!

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A magical medley of drawings, sketches, collages, rubbings and frottages from our series of Draw It Like Stubbs art workshops 

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Very interesting visit to the Museum, glad to see that the new building seems easier to find and busier than the old.

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