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An interview with Vanessa Finney, Manager Archives and Records who talks about her experiences working with the Digitisation Project.

From the blog series 'Point and Shoot' by Museum photographers Carl Bento and James King

From the blog series 'Point and Shoot' by Museum photographers Carl Bento and James King

For our Deep Oceans exhibition, Angus Adameitis and our prep team are building a full scale replica of Otis Barton and William Bebee's Bathysphere.

While building the Deep Oceans exhibition, we’ve had to come up with ways of effectively demonstrating the vastness, as well as the conditions of the Deep Oceans.

This movie clip shows a sawfish feeding. Sawfishes can slash from side to side with the rostrum to stun, impale or even cut prey fishes in half. The rostrum can also pin fishes to the substrate where they are ingested.

Fishes of the genus Liopropoma have have extremely long ornate second and third dorsal fin spines during their pelagic larval phase. This ornamentation is lost when the larvae metamophose during the transition between open water habitat and the reefs where Liopropoma species liv

Dr Zoe Richards has just returned from an expedition to Kosrae, Micronesia, where she was surveying coral biodiversity. In this post, she describes her scuba diving surveys beneath the Island of the Sleeping Lady.

Dr Zoe Richards has just returned from an expedition to Kosrae, Micronesia, where she was surveying coral biodiversity. In this post, she shares her experiences at the ancient and fascinating Lelu ruins.

It is exceedingly rare to see a juvenile whalefish (a tapetail) in shallow water.

This video is quite amazing; It shows an unusual feeding strategy employed by Common Lionfish.

Progress on the Deep Oceans exhibition is swimming along at a cracking pace...

The opportunities offered by the web are forcing some museums to rethink how they provide content. Museum professional Irene Rubino interviews Michael Hugill about an emerging museum profession: the online producer.

Andrew and Duncan are volunteers on the digitisation project, called DigiVol, who both provide interesting commentary on life behind the scenes in the digitisation lab.

Museum photographers Carl Bento and James King on the power and practice of photography. This week, it's 'understanding people'...