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The Micrarium is a place for tiny things - somewhere to come and explore the microscopic specimens at the Grant Museum of Zoology.It鈥檚 often said that 95% of known animal species are smaller than your thumb, but have you noticed how most museums fill their displays with big animals? The Micrarium is a new permenant display that intends to right this wrong. Converting an old office/storeroom into a beautiful back-lit cave, The Micrarium allows the Museum to display some of the tiniest specimens in the collection, on wall-to-wall microscope slides.YouTube Widget Placeholderhttps://youtu.be/Oehn9xD672ENatural history museums often have large collections of microscope slides but are often overlooked due to their difficulty to display and are no longer used in teaching. The Micrarium shines a light on these collections and is an experiment with aesthetically displaying these historic objects.   Over 2000 slides are on display in The Micrarium, lining the walls from floor to ceiling and set against light boxes. The specimens include:鈥滾egs of fleas showing muscles鈥�, strangely arranged on the slide to be reminiscent of the Isle of Man coat of arms.Whole squid, just a couple of millimetres longBeetles which have been sliced along their entire length, through the antennae, head, legs and body. 1/10th of a millimetre thick.Scattered amongst the miniature creatures are a handful of tiny pieces of giant animals on microscope slides, including whales, mammoths and giraffes.The Micrarium was part of a development project funded by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and the Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund.

This project was a collaboration between Bruce Castle Museum in Haringey and the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at 果冻影院. They worked together to introduce museum visitors to the concept of a Molly Spoon, a wooden doll used in ceremonies at the Molly Houses of Renaissance London as a symbol of 鈥榗oming out鈥� as a new character. Visitors were encouraged to make their own Molly Spoons in an exploration of what it means to create a sense of identity through rituals. The stories around the spoons were archived using Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr, linking the 19th century with 21st century technology.The spoons were then shown in a free temporary exhibition at Bruce Castle Museum cultivating new collections around personal and LGBTQ cultural history for the Museum and building on Haringey鈥檚 LGBTQ campaigning history.Image of Bruce Castle: courtesy of Robert WaiteMay 28th saw the launch of the Mollie Spoon Archive at Bruce Castle Museum. The launch event was attended by Ms Timberlina, Dr. Gareth Hagger-Johnson (Department of Epidemiology and Public Health), and local hip-hop pensioner Ida Barr. Gareth said "Museums are a neglected form of public engagement. Like the African comb exhibition before it, the Molly Spoon Archive encourages dialogue about why minority groups are not well represented in London's mainstream museums. Social hierarchies of the past may explain the health inequalities of today".In the NewsCheck out a guest blog post on Broke in LondonProject LeadsGareth Hagger-Johnson, Research Associate, Institute of Child Health & Senior Research Associate, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 果冻影院Deborah Hedgecock, Curator, Bruce Castle MuseumTim Redfern, Freelancer

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These animals are rarely represented in natural history museum displays. They are not special enough. People would rather see dinosaurs, dodos and giant whales.However, The Museum of Ordinary Animals puts these everyday species front and centre. It investigates some of the profound impacts they have had on humanity and the natural world, where they came from, and the extraordinary things we have learned from them. We have invited them into our homes as pets; their role in our diets has changed us biologically; they are critical to modern medicine and they hold huge symbolic value in many cultures. The success or failure of civilisations has depended on their Ordinary Animals.The Museum of Ordinary Animals gives these commonplace creatures a chance to tell their stories. It begins by asking where ordinary animals came from, followed by the exploration of the themes of Ordinary Animals in culture, in science and in the environment.Ordinary Animals are everywhere, and these topics are endless. With objects from the world of archaeology, art, zoology and the history of science, the exhibition features stories from cutting-edge research taking place at 果冻影院 in order to investigate these themes. Exhibits include a wall of 4000 mice skeletons, Egyptian cat mummies, and what may be the world鈥檚 oldest veterinary text.EventsWhat does our relationship with Ordinary Animals tell us about ourselves? Through discussions, a late opening, a comedy night and offsite events The Museum of Ordinary Animals events programme looked at how boring beasts shape our relationship with the natural world.Let鈥檚 Talk About鈥�.Discussion'Ordinary Animals' are rarely talked about. However, the species we encounter every day on our plates, on our laps and on our streets have profound stories to tell. The human and natural worlds have been dramatically changed by these animals. For millennia, the human story has been intertwined with their stories.Join us for a series of talks, each focusing on a different 'Ordinary Animal'.  Share your own experiences of these boring beasts and hear from people who study, care for and work with 'Ordinary Animals'.DogsWednesday 18 October, 1.30-2.30pmJoin us for as we focus on an Ordinary Animal that has been part of the human story for 32,000 years, dogs. We鈥檒l be discussing the origin of our relationship with dogs, the role of dogs in our contemporary society and how dogs are helping in cancer detection. RatsWednesday 22 November, 1.30-2.30pmJoin us for as we focus on an Ordinary Animal that has something of a reputational issue, rats. We鈥檒l be hearing from one of the 2.5 million rat owners in the UK, looking at what happened when we took rats across the globe and attempting to understand why rats are so disliked. SheepWednesday 6 December, 1.30-2.30pmJoin us for as we focus on an Ordinary Animal that is ubiquitous across Welsh landscape, sheep. We鈥檒l be hearing from a sheep farmer, a performing arts company and a researcher who is investigating how sheep acquire new knowledge and what that means for their welfare. (Ordinary) Animal ShowoffComedy Thursday 26 October, 6.30-9pmForget the leviathans hanging from ceilings or the long extinct dinosaurs or the gargantuan crabs for one night only we are celebrating the over-looked, the underwhelming, the animals you don't come to natural history museums to see.Join us to find the funny side of the boring beasts that changed our world with (Ordinary) Animal Showoff. With Steve Cross as your host we've invited animal fans to take to share their love of mundane animals. Is it OK to be a Cat Guy?DiscussionThursday 16 November, 7-9pmThroughout history, have some species been more associated with manliness or femininity? Cats had particularly been linked with women, while more 鈥渙utdoor鈥� animals like dogs were the pet of choice for men. However, as more men are increasingly flaunting their affinity for kitties, how does our relationship with pets relate to our gender identity and gender stereotypes? Join us as we ask is it ok to be a cat guy?Caring for Ordinary AnimalsOffsite visitWednesday 8 November, 12-4pmHaving created Ordinary Animals we were charged with looking after them. Join us as we go behind the scenes of the world's longest established vet school, the Royal Veterinary College (RVC).  We'll have the chance to meet clinicans at Europe's largest small animal hospital, the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals, and discover more about the work of their Farm Animal Clinical Facilities caring for Ordinary Animals.Cats Broke the InternetLate openingFriday 1 December, 6.30-9pmOne Ordinary Animal more than any other reigns supreme on the World Wide Web: cats. Small cats, big cats, grumpy cats, LOLcats. With the two million cat videos on YouTube being viewed a staggering 26 billion times, cats own the internet. Join us for a feline-themed late opening with cat-inspired audio cinema, discussions investigating how cats became so influential and special cat video screenings. People behind The Museum of Ordinary AnimalsThe exhibition was curated by Jack Ashby (Grant Museum of Zoology, part of 果冻影院 Culture)Graphic design by Boyle&Perks Contributing researchers:Alan Bates (果冻影院 Pathology)Dr Wendy Birch and Laurence Clarke (果冻影院 Anatomy Lab)Professor Tim Blackburn, Professor Steve Jones, Liisa Loog,Professor Judith Mank and Professor Mark Thomas (果冻影院 Genetics, Evolution and Environment)  Dr Brendan Clarke (果冻影院 Science and Technology Studies)Subhadra Das (果冻影院 Science Collections)Dr Lazaros Foukas (果冻影院 Institute of Healthy Aging)Katrina Holland (果冻影院 Anthropology)Dr Matilda Holmes, Dr Louise Martin Professor Stephen Shennan (果冻影院 Institute of Archaeology)Professor Michael J. Reiss (果冻影院 Institute of Education)George Richards (果冻影院 Art Museum)Dr Kathleen Walker-Meikle (果冻影院 History)

In this project the South London Gallery鈥檚 REcreative UK Editorial Board teamed up with Central Saint Martins鈥� MA Culture, Criticism and Curation to respond to the concept of the Google Cultural Institute which offers mass participation but tends to represent culture in its most narrow and high form.  The Peckham Cultural Institute 鈥� part think tank, part design studio - aimed to draw a different picture.A series of study sessions developed a model for representing 鈥榗ulture鈥� through digital curating and archiving as an alternative to Google鈥檚 offer to 鈥榟ost the world鈥檚 treasures online鈥�. The project co-produced outputs which represented the discussions and interests of the participants and offered a public response to the question 鈥榃hy should Googlers be left to decide what is treasure鈥�?Image: South London Gallery- Facade. Photo by Andy StaggProject LeadsAlison Green, Course Leader, MA Culture, Criticism and Curation, Central Saint MartinsSarah Coffils, Young People's Project Manager, South London Gallery

Space, identity, construction and disorientation in 果冻影院 Art Museum's growing collection of moving image and sound art This exhibition showcased 果冻影院 Art Museum鈥檚 growing collection of time-based media - works of art which depend on technology and change meaningfully with respect to time, and include video, experimental film and audio. The display featured works by graduates from the Slade School of Fine Art, acquired through the annual William Coldstream Memorial Prize, the 果冻影院 Art Museum Prize and special commissions, all produced between 2004 and 2013. The exhibited artists included: Dana Ariel, Tom Chick, Chris Cornish, Marcia Farquhar, Nicolas Feldmeyer, Reynir Hutber, Viveka Marksjo, Julia McKinlay, Eleanor Morgan, Nicole Morris, Tessa Power, Marianna Simnett and Georgina Tate.Viveka Marksjo represented in the ehxibition with Embodied/Disembodied (2006) was the recipent of the Stanhope Research Award and the Julian Sullivan Award in Fine Art Media in 2006, Nicole Morris work I am here! (2012) featured in Bloomberg New Contemporaries at the ICA that year, Marianna Simnett represented in the exhibition with Dog (2014) was selected for for the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2014 - 2015, Nicholas Feldmeyer represented in the exhibition with Iam unique and so is everyone else (2012) was winner of Channel 4 New Sensations 2012, and Marcia Farquhar was the first receipient Arthole Artist鈥檚 Award by LADA (Live Art Development Agency) awarded in 2016 for three years.More about the exhibitionThe displayed works demonstrated the ways in which these artists play with moving image and sound in order to consider concepts of space, identity, construction and disorientation, and to create a dialogue between viewer and object. For example, 鈥楾ime Based Media鈥� included The Printers鈥� Symphony, a collaborative multimedia piece aiming to bring the printing process into the exhibition space, created by Dana Ariel, Julia McKinlay, Eleanor Morgan and Georgina Tate. The sound recording (made from the noises familiar from the print-room environment, including ink rollers and printing press cogs) accompanied by a concertina of printed images and marks was awarded the first 果冻影院 Art Museum Prize in 2013. The exhibition also featured Flaxman Exchange, a 2013 collaborative film by Tom Chick, Reynir Hutber and Marcia Farqhuar, which documented Farquhar's performance work around significant spaces of 果冻影院. Read more about this project here.A series of events, Time-based Media in Conversation, ran alongside the exhibition, including talks by artist Marianna Simnett (winner of the 2013 Coldstream Prize) and an evening performance-lecture by artist and recent Slade PhD graduate Kai Syng Tan. The audio-visual equipment was kindly provided by the Slade School of Fine Art.Read more about the works in the exhibition hereMore about the Coldstream PrizeThe Coldstream Prize is a purchase award selected from the Slade鈥檚 degree shows to reflect outstanding achievement over the whole year, rather than requiring students to create pieces to fit specific requirements. This has resulted in a wide array of artwork. Time-based media is one particular strand within the history of the award.

Timekeeper in ResidenceWhat does time look like to you? As soon as we try to picture time the irony is that we transform it into space, which means it's no longer time. What鈥檚 more, the images and objects we use to comprehend time shape our attitude to the past, our sense of what is to come, and perhaps even what it is to be human. A Storm is Blowing by artist-curator Cathy Haynes is an improvised 3D diagram that strings together 35 different historical pictures and models of time, some found (above) and some made for the installation. They include an ancient Egyptian game of life in the form of a coiled snake, a miniature multi-dimensional trapeze act, the future figured as a many-horned goat, a 5-metre chart of history as a stream, an astronomical wormhole, an 18th-century parent of the Facebook timeline, and its knotty antithesis. The installation is accompanied by A Report on Progress, a take-away booklet with text and drawings by Petrie鈥檚 Timekeeper.This installation is part of a creative research project at The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, 果冻影院. Supported with a new award from the Arts Humanities Research Council, artist-curator Cathy Haynes as Timekeeper in Residence has been exploring how time is mapped, measured, modeled and lived. Museums have traditionally used linear time concepts, such as chronological timelines, as a way of organizing their collections. Over the last few months this has been challenged in a series of public conversations between the Timekeeper as researcher and a variety of experts from astronomy to psychology, evolutionary genetics, theology, art history and philosophy. The project as a whole is a collaborative exploration of the alternatives to the museum timeline.Visit astormisblowing.org for more details and podcasts from the Timekeeper events.The timekeeper projectWhat does the museum timeline have to do with the novel Tristram Shandy? Why does Botox make time go faster? Is evolution really a march of progress? Why did the Ancients think the future is behind them? And why doesn鈥檛 the universe all tick to the same clock?These are just some of the questions to be explored in a new creative research project at The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology based at 果冻影院. Supported with a new award from the Arts Humanities Research Council, artist-curator Cathy Haynes as Timekeeper in Residence will explore how time is mapped, measured, modeled and lived. Museums have traditionally used linear time concepts, such as chronological timelines, as a way of organizing their collections. This will be challenged in a series of public conversations between the Timekeeper as researcher and a variety of experts from astronomy to psychology, evolutionary genetics, theology, art history and philosophy. Each conversation focuses on objects that give different experiences of time, from an ancient shadow clock in the Petrie鈥檚 collection to Facebook鈥檚 timeline format to a newspaper horoscope, encouraging debate on how competing time concepts can be used in museum presentation to present different philosophies, beliefs, realities and ideas. This in turn will challenge the way museums display their collections and offer new paths to explore.Listen to an interview with artist-curator Cathy Haynes, Timekeeper in Residence, on The Monocle Weekly. Visit the A Storm Is Blowing website for more details and podcasts from the Timekeeper events.