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The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences invites you to peak behind its closed doors and barriers and see the people, the discoveries, and the objects that are coming together to make the Darwin the Geologist exhibition.Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:37:27 +0000http://backend.userland.com/rss092enDarwin the Geologist, responding to your feedbackThis feature from our Project Manager explains how your comments have improved the Sedgwick Museum's new exhibition.
When developing the ‘Darwin the Geologist’ exhibition we listened to your comments carefully and responded to them in the final exhibit. We ran focus groups with adults, families, teachers, further education college students and ...
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Spinning yarns and discovering new activitiesThis Saturday Sedgwick Museum visitors had the chance to participate in 'Spinning Yarns' a December event celebrating Darwin's famous voyage round the world with storytelling, crafts and the debut of a brand new under-fives' discovery chest.
Four story telling sessions led by Marion Leeper concentrated on Darwin's travels and featured the ...
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Darwin helps children make things up and tell storiesArtist Ricki Outis worked with Years 5 and 6 at Milton Road Primary School and children at Brunswick Nursery to create textile pieces inspired by Darwin's voyage on the Beagle and the rocks and fossils he collected.
The older children created drawings inspired by a visit to the Darwin exhibition at ...
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Access and the Sedgwick MuseumIn this feature, Collections Assistant, Matt Riley takes us though the measures the Department of Earth Sciences and Sedgwick Museum have taken to make sure as many people as possible are able to experience the Darwin the Geologist exhibition and the rest of the museum.
When Dr John Woodward donated his ...
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Stitching a story mat for the SedgwickFormer research scientist and textile artist, Jenny Langley just finished work on a stunning piece of work specially commissioned for the Darwin the Geologist project - a sizable story mat based on Darwin's travels and collecting on board HMS Beagle. The mat will be on view at the Sedgwick Museum ...
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Conserving the Beagle CollectionIn this special feature, project Conservator, Esther Sharp takes us through the many conservation challenges of putting on the 'Darwin the Geologist' exhibition from emptying out the objects that used to be housed in Bays 1 and 2 where the exhibition now is to deciding what should be displayed and ...
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Padel performs prizewinning poetry
Charles Darwin’s great-great-granddaughter Ruth Padel read a selection of poems from her book Darwin - A Life in Poems at the Sedgwick Museum last night as part of the Cambridge University Festival of Ideas.
She explored the personal and emotional dimensions of Darwin’s life and work from his early passion for ...
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Collections at the heart of the new Darwin exhibitionOur project manager, Dr Francis Neary, reflects on the planning and concept behind the ‘Darwin the Geologist’ exhibition:
When the project team was given the challenge of creating an exhibition on Darwin’s geology in this important year for Darwin’s memory, we quickly realised that our contribution to the celebrations would be ...
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Sculpting a fitting tributeAnthony Smith graduated from Christ's College Cambridge in 2005 with a degree in Natural Sciences. He went on to become the sculptor of the Sedgwick Museum's bust of Charles Darwin. In this article he explains some of the steps that went into creating a bronze likeness of the man who ...
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Conference discusses Darwin’s fieldworkLast weekend over 30 delegates gathered at the Sedgwick Museum to hear 12 talks about Darwin’s collecting practices, observations and experiments. The topics presented at the ‘Darwin in the Field’ conference ranged from the 1831 fieldtrip to North Wales with Adam Sedgwick that Darwin went on to learn geological skills ...
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