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Associate Professor Holly Bridge from the University of Oxford.

This video was recorded for the Brain Diaries exhibition at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, 10 March 2017 - 1 January 2018. www.braindiaries.org

When you step inside the Museum of Natural History, you may not know about the important work that is happening behind closed doors.
The Museum’s reference collection is used by many researchers to help identify their findings from fieldwork, and create new research findings.
Here’s Dr Chris Stimpson, who uses the Museum’s collections to help identify small bones he has collected from ancient Vietnamese caves. His work, and our collections, help him work out the impact humans have had over thousands of years.
Watch the video to find out more about the important work going on behind the scenes at the Museum of Natural History.

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Professor Danny Dorling of the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford explains how demographic data paints a picture of the lives of real people, societies and communities.

This video is part of the Settlers exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
www.oum.ox.ac.uk/settlers

Discover some of the most important ideas in the theory of evolution with TV’s Steve Backshall and Professor Alice Roberts in a treasure hunt-style trail around Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

This is your chance to discover as much as you can about evolution - what must surely be the most important idea in human history; it tells us everything we need to know about natural history, including how we got to be here in the first place.

www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/sensing-evolution

On 30 June 1860 the Museum hosted the Great Debate on Evolution. It may have gone (a tiny bit) like this.

Professor Danny Dorling of the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford explains how change within populations can create the illusion that things are staying the same.

This video is part of the Settlers exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
www.oum.ox.ac.uk/settlers

WMG, a cutting-edge manufacturing and technology research unit at Warwick, employed its forensic scanning techniques and expertise to discover that the Oxford Dodo was shot in the neck and back of the head with a 17th-century shotgun.

Creator: Paul Wilson (WMG - University of Warwick)
Supervision: Prof. Mark Williams, Prof. M. Paul Smith, Dr Alex Attridge

Dr Clare Bycroft of the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford explains how the People of the British Isles study used DNA analysis to create a genetic map of Britain.

This video is part of the Settlers exhibition at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
www.oum.ox.ac.uk/settlers

Some of the more plucky exhibits in the Goes to Town trail have escaped their confines and are apparently plotting to return to the Museum of Natural History to launch a reopening party at 7am on Saturday 15 February. This report from Rachel Parle for OUMNH News.

Watch this space for more...

Anyone walking on a summer day in hot places such as the Mediterranean or the tropics will have heard cicadas singing. Cicadas actually are among the loudest of all animals, singing at up to 120 dB – as loud as a passing freight train.

Find out more: https://morethanadodo.com/2016/06/17/...

As part of the Museum's Visions of Nature year in 2016, the it hosted three poets in residence: John Barnie, Steven Matthews, and Kelley Swain.

The poets worked alongside staff in the collections and out in the Museum itself to gain inspiration for their writing. A small anthology of the resulting poetry is published at the end of 2016.

Read more at www.visionsofnature.net

EXHIBITION NOW EXTENDED
A groundbreaking photographic exhibition of Science and Art, running from 27 May 2016 to 29 January 2017 at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Microsculpture is a unique visual experience. A 10mm insect is shown as a 3 metre print, revealing minute detail and allowing the viewer to take in the structure of the insect in its entirety. The beautifully lit, high magnification portraiture of Levon Biss captures the microscopic form of these animals in striking high-resolution detail.

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Video by Tanya Cochrane ( https://twitter.com/tczen)

Dr Nicholas Tosca from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford discusses the earliest evidence of bacteria.

A night of mind-expanding neuroscience goodness as part of the museum's Brain Diaries exhibition programme (www.braindiaries.org).

Featuring Laughter Yoga, neuro-cocktails, knit-a-neuron, brain board games, bar, talks, demos, and lots of neuroscientists.

Plus live music - including a set from award-winning beatboxer and musician Reeps One (reepsone.co.uk), whose brain activity has been scanned by scientists.

Produced in partnership with Oxford Neuroscience (www.neuroscience.ox.ac.uk).

The application of cutting-edge methods for visualising and analysing specimens digitally and in three dimensions is key to research in the Museum.

Creator: Paul Wilson (WMG - University of Warwick)
Supervision: Prof. Mark Williams, Prof. M. Paul Smith, Dr Alex Attridge

The Museum of Natural History and Pitt Rivers Museum worked in collaboration with Luxmuralis and Fusion Arts Oxford to create this one-off light and sound installation for the Hopes and Fears late-night event on 18 November 2016.

Luxmuralis gathered images and sounds from the museums’ collections and created a dramatic and breathtaking one-off event that lit up the entire face of the Museum building

Discover some of the most important ideas in the theory of evolution with TV’s Steve Backshall and Professor Alice Roberts in a treasure hunt-style trail around Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

This is your chance to discover as much as you can about evolution - what must surely be the most important idea in human history; it tells us everything we need to know about natural history, including how we got to be here in the first place.

Juliet Hay, Earth Collections conservator at the Museum, demonstrates the painstaking process of removing a plesiosaur skull from its rocky surroundings.