Blogs from the Natural History Museum
Inspiring a love of the natural world
A guest blog by Nicola Lowndes
Adults of these species are attracted to the light of a moth trap of course! In this instance I am not referring to the Common Swift bird (Apus apus) that is seen carrying out impressive aerial displays in summer but instead to the beautiful Common Swift moth (Korscheltellus lupulina).
Continue reading “What do the Common swift, Cockchafer and Caddisfly all have in common? | Digital Collections Programme”
Laura Jacklin is on secondment as the Communications Manager for the Digital Collections Programme. A few weeks in, she shares her first impressions.
I’ve worked at the Museum for three years, but moving from the marketing team to the Digital Collections Programme has felt like I’ve entered a parallel universe – it’s the Museum, but not as I know it!
Continue reading “Joining the digitisation team – in the middle of a pandemic | Digital Collections”
We are opening up the Museum’s Bee type collection to the world by digitising, geo referencing and releasing the specimens online. Continue reading “Creating a buzz around the world| Digital Collections Programme”
In preparation of this blog I’ve been asking myself what, exactly, do I do for my job. “Well,” I say, “I’m a digitiser – I assist in the digitisation of specimens.” “Fantastic!” you say, “but what the hell do you do?” Continue reading “Day in the life of a digitiser |Digital Collections Programme”