Nottingham Natural History Museum

As a curator at the Nottingham Natural History Museum, UK, I'm lucky enough to be surrounded by animals every day (of the taxidermied variety of course). Not many people have heard of us, but we have all sorts of creatures on display, some small, some big!

For example, here is our giraffe, Geoffrey:

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And our twitter mascot, George the Gorilla:
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If anyone is interested, I recently set up a Facebook page which I'm slowly updating with pictures, so you can see more exhibits there.
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Nice pics and welcome here

Thanks widu.

I forgot to mention that the museum is situated in an extensive deer park populated by red and fallow deer, so I'm surrounded by more than my fair share of spectacular wildlife too :) I must take some photos to share.

Those are great pics! Do you have pics of the deer? I would love to see them.

Thanks Saarloos, I'll take some photos of the deer next time I have a chance and post them here :)

What a place ! I wish you will post more pics because some of us are FB reluctant

By the way, is the Green thing on the "African hole" pic the odd creature or is it something elses ?

Kikimalou wrote:

What a place ! I wish you will post more pics because some of us are FB reluctant

By the way, is the Green thing on the "African hole" pic the odd creature or is it something elses ?

Yes! the green thing is a little goblin drinking from the water hole! Definitely an odd creature for an African diorama scene. The photo was taken at Halloween when we had goblins hiding all over the museum

What an interesting place You working in Adam! Natural History museums are always very interesting. Thank You for sharing :)

Look what I encountered on the way home from work tonight - a herd of red deer. Luckily I had my camera on me, but unluckily the sun was going down, I was balancing my bike between my legs, and I'm not a great photographer anyway, so apologies for the bad quality. I couldn't get much closer as they are rather timid and they were already starting to walk away. But, as you can see, I'm very lucky to work in such a place :) In the summer I'll try and take some better photographs to share.
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Wow, great pic

Indeed you are very lucky Adam, I would love to share such pics from my own travel

I hope you will share more soon.

That's really cool!! a great collection!!
would love to learn the art of taxidermy someday. I also have some stuffed animals en skulls!!
just liked the fb page!!

Thanks for liking kgroot :)

That is really cool! You are really lucky to be around animals all day, in the museum or just seeing them in a field.

I feel very lucky!

Funny to see you here Dr Admin.


either way belated welcome

A Blaschka glass model in the museum :)
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Another deer sighting in Wollaton Park (I'm much happier with this photo ):
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animalz wrote:

A Blaschka glass model in the museum :)

Very very nice (o)): Their mollusc and medusa models are really stunning! Thank you for sharing

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Another deer sighting in Wollaton Park (I'm much happier with this photo ):

Incredible encounter! No chance I could live something like that on the way to work
Those stag need a company to realise realistic models... At least more than nowadays

Yes, deer photo is trully wonderful!! congratulations Adam, thank You for sharing!

Glass octopus is very interesting too

What a wonderful place to work and such beautiful animals to encounter on your way to and from work. Thanks so much for sharing the photos and the facebook page. I would love to be able to visit.

Phantastic models

Here's a close up of our Giraffe, Geoffrey :)
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A view of our new display case with newly conserved animals from our historical collections:
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WANT THEM ALL