Sir David Attenborough at the opening of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge.
Sir David Attenborough at the opening of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. Filmed on 22nd of June 2018.
The opening of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge.
The opening of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. Filmed on 22nd of June 2018.
Sir David Attenborough speaks about the re-opening of the Museum of Zoology
The University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge is one of the largest and most important natural history collections in the UK, with an extraordinarily rich history dating back to 1814. On 23rd June 2018 the Museum reopens after a five-year, £4.1million redevelopment to reveal thousands of incredible specimens from across the animal kingdom.
The refurbished galleries bring the Museum into the 21st century and are designed to engage and inspire a new generation of visitors. New features include the construction of new stores to preserve its outstanding collections, and a dramatic new glass entrance hall where the fin whale skeleton resides.
Entry to the Museum id free.
Visit to the Grant Museum of Zoology in London
Yesterday I visited the Grant Museum of Zoology. It is a place found in London, not far from the better known Tottenham Court Road underground station. Its pretty small museum as the museums go, but what is interesting in it is not the size, but rather the ambient inside. When you enter it doesn't really looks like something that belongs to the 21st century. On first sight it is a random collection of skeletons and different parts of animals displayed in over-packed glass displays with here and there specimens with freak rather scientific value. In short this is how I imagine the cabinets of the 18 centuries naturalists and explorers looked like.
As far as I understood on display is only small fraction of what that museum owns and there are ongoing some research and educational activities, and actually the scientist, researchers and educators can be seen working in public placed desks on the view of the visitors and if anybody wants to can speak with them.
If anybody wonders to visit or not that place I'd say it worth to spend an hour there, because this is how long takes the whole tour. The place is pretty small, but there are still a few interesting things, like the skeletons of the extinct Thylacine and Quagga, the huge Elephant Bird egg or the skull of the Asian water buffalo with its impressive sized horns. There are many other things of course that if one wants can spend even all opening hours (13 to 17 every day) looking at them.
So on the web site of the museum we can see the following:
The Grant Museum of Zoology is the only remaining university zoological museum in London. It houses around 68,000 specimens, covering the whole Animal Kingdom.
Founded in 1828 as a teaching collection, the Museum is packed full of skeletons, mounted animals and specimens preserved in fluid. Many of the species are now endangered or extinct including the Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine, the Quagga, and the Dodo.
Cambridge Zoology Museum
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Cambridge ZooCast: Episode 1
In this episode Julie Sarmiento-Ponce talks to us about her work researching the acoustic signalling of crickets.
Cambridge ZooCasts: What's it like to be a Graduate student at the Department of Zoology in Cambridge?
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Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. Summer 2019 exhibition 'Evolution as Inspiration' introduction
Sir David Attenborough introducing the Summer 2019 exhibition at the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
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Cambridge ZooCast: Episode 2
In this episode PhD student, Victor Kang talks about his research on invertebrate adhesion and his time spent travelling for fieldwork and collaborations.
[Please note that Julie introduces this episode in her native language, Spanish, to showcase the diversity in the department.]
See more of Victor’s work here:
Cambridge ZooCasts: What's it like to be a Graduate student in the
Department of Zoology in Cambridge?
In each episode, two graduate students have a casual
conversation on topics ranging from their research and academic work to extracurricular activities within the department and the university.
This video was filmed and edited by Manasse Pinsuwan.
Visiting Museums in Cambridge, Sedgwick, Zoology and Fitzwilliam
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Places to see in ( Cambridge - UK )
Places to see in ( Cambridge - UK )
Cambridge is a city on the River Cam in eastern England, home to the prestigious University of Cambridge, dating to 1209. University colleges include King’s, famed for its choir and towering Gothic chapel, as well as Trinity, founded by Henry VIII, and St John’s, with its 16th-century Great Gate. University museums have exhibits on archaeology and anthropology, polar exploration, the history of science and zoology.
Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam about 50 miles (80 km) north of London. Cambridge became an important trading centre. The first town charters were granted in the 12th century, although city status was not conferred until 1951.
The University of Cambridge, founded in 1209, is one of the top five universities in the world. The university includes the Cavendish Laboratory, King's College Chapel, and the Cambridge University Library. The city's skyline is dominated by the last two buildings, along with the spire of the Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church, the chimney of Addenbrooke's Hospital and St John's College Chapel tower. Anglia Ruskin University, evolved from the Cambridge School of Art and the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, also has its main campus in the city.
Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology Silicon Fen with industries such as software and bioscience and many start-up companies born out of the university. More than 40% of the workforce has a higher education qualification, more than twice the national average. The Cambridge Biomedical Campus, one of the largest biomedical research clusters in the world, is soon to be home to AstraZeneca, a hotel and the relocated Papworth Hospital.
Parker's Piece hosted the first ever game of Association football. The Strawberry Fair music and arts festival and Midsummer Fairs are held on Midsummer Common, and the annual Cambridge Beer Festival takes place on Jesus Green. The city is adjacent to the M11 and A14 roads, and Cambridge station is less than an hour from London King's Cross railway station.
Alot to see in ( Cambridge - UK ) such as :
Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge University Botanic Garden
The Backs
Anglesey Abbey
Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge
Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Museum of Cambridge
Ely Cathedral
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Parker's Piece
Cambridge Museum of Technology
Cambridge University Museum of Zoology
Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge
Christ's Pieces
Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church
Cambridge Castle
Little St Mary's, Cambridge
Fen Rivers Way
Imperial War Museum Duxford
Pleasurewood Hills
King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Bridge of Sighs
Mathematical Bridge
Shepreth Wildlife Park
Jesus Green
Footprints tours
Cambridge Science Centre
River Cam
Cherry Hinton Hall
Cambridge Contemporary Art
Coe Fen
The Polar Museum
Coleridge Recreation Ground
Wheeler Street, Cambridge
Wandlebury Country Park
Wandlebury Hill
Clip 'n Climb Cambridge
Cherry Hinton Pit
( Cambridge - UK) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Cambridge . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Cambridge - UK
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The opening of the Zoology Museum in Cambridge a live Q and A with Sir David Attenborough
Sir David Attenborough is in conversation with Liz Bonnin for the opening of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge.
Cambridge touring in style visiting all the famous Cambridge University colleges and bridges.
Cambridge Punting Tour around the University colleges.
Traveling in style visiting all the famous Cambridge University colleges and bridges.
Oxford University Museum - Take One Museum
Here's a wonderful 30 minute programme about one of my favourite places Oxford University Museum Take One Museum The presenter explorer and deep sea diver Paul Rose beautifully expresses an irrepressible excitement on visiting this extraordinary place the same as I felt when I visited this wonderful Victorian cathedral and time capsule to the study of natural science. The steel and glass roof designed and built by Skidmore the designer of the The great Chrystal Palace emits a wondrous light that illuminates this mystical museum space where all the Victorian greats of natural history once met in this building to debate Darwinism. Anyone visiting the museums of Oxford could do no better than make this one top of their list to visit.The building is the forerunner to the Natural History Museum in South Kensington London.The geology wing of Trinity College Dublin is the forerunner of this building which were both designed by Irish architects Dean and Woodward.
Take One Museum
In each programme, explorer Paul Rose takes us on a non-stop, 30-minute tour of one of his favourite museums.
Paul is an explorer who leads expeditions all over the world. In this series, he takes the opportunity to do some exploring closer to home. And he demonstrates that you don't need to be a globe-trotter to see the world and discover its riches.
In an innovative format, Take One Museum is filmed in real time. First-time presenter Paul relishes the challenge. With no auto cue, no stopping, no fixed script – it is television filmed without the safety net. The reason for filming this way is to show that even if you're short of time, you can still uncover an array of absorbing stories in just half an hour.
Take One Museum in Oxford
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Pitt Rivers Museum
Sharing a stunning building, the two museums form a symbiotic pairing of the natural world and human culture. The discovery of dinosaurs was made here, in 1815, and the Museum of Natural History held one of the most explosive debates in modern science – when Darwin first announced his theory of evolution.
The Pitt Rivers Museum is where the study of anthropology started and its original cabinets are overflowing with great stories about human culture. Paul discovers two of his heroes’ treasures – a fragile kayak, symbol of a polar controversy, and the captivating 'power figure' which changed lives in Africa.
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History, sometimes known simply as the Oxford University Museum or OUMNH, is a museum displaying many of the University of Oxford's natural history specimens, located on Parks Road in Oxford, England. It also contains a lecture theatre which is used by the University's chemistry, zoology and mathematics departments. The University Museum provides the only access into the adjoining Pitt Rivers Museum.
The neo-Gothic building was designed by the Irish architects Thomas Newenham Deane and Benjamin Woodward. The museum's design was directly influenced by the writings of critic John Ruskin, who involved himself by making various suggestions to Woodward during construction. It was built in 1861. The adjoining building that houses the Pitt Rivers Museum was the work of Thomas Manly Deane, son of Thomas Newenham Deane. It was built between 1885 and 1886.
The museum consists of a large square court with a glass roof, supported by cast iron pillars, which divide the court into three aisles. Cloistered arcades run around the ground and first floor of the building, with stone columns each made from a different British stone, selected by geologist John Phillips (the Keeper of the Museum). The ornamentation of the stonework and iron pillars incorporates natural forms such as leaves and branches, combining the Pre-Raphaelite style with the scientific role of the building.
Statues of eminent men of science stand around the ground floor of the court—from Aristotle and Bacon through to Darwin and Linnaeus. Although the University paid for the construction of the building, the ornamentation was funded by public subscription—and much of it remains incomplete. The Irish stone carvers O'Shea and Whelan had been employed to create lively freehand carvings in the Gothic manner. When funding dried up they offered to work unpaid, but were accused by members of the University Congregation of defacing the building by adding unauthorised work. According to Acland, they responded by caricaturing the Congregation as parrots and owls in the carving over the building's entrance. Acland insists that he forced them to remove the heads.
Cambridge ZooCast: Episode 7
In this episode, PhD student Felipe Simoes talks to us about his work on the evolution of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic insects, and their adaptation to that extreme environment.
Cambridge ZooCasts: What's it like to be a Graduate student at the
Department of Zoology in Cambridge?
In each episode, two graduate students have a casual conversation on topics ranging from their research and academic work to extracurricular activities within the department and the university.
See more of Felipe’s work here: and
This video was filmed and edited by Manasse Pinsuwan.
Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. Monkey face patterns by Jonathan Kingdon
Jonathan Kingdon, artist and naturalist, describes monkey face patterns at the summer 2019 exhibition at the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
Why Choose Part II Zoology
Some of our recent students talk about why they have enjoyed studying Part II Zoology at Cambridge.
V.I.P. Gherkin Visit and Grant Museum of Zoology
The BTP boys enjoy an exclusive wine and dine experience at the very top of the Gherkin. After this we head of to look around and review the Grant Museum of Zoology
Eid Garden Party 2018 featuring Ibz Mo, Saffia & Zakaria
Eid Mubarak! Ramadan and exams are over so now it's time to celebrate. The Islamic Society of Cambridge University held their own garden party this weekend at Gonville and Caius complete with pizza, henna and music.