Category: Behind the Scenes | Colchester + Ipswich Museums

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Museum Stores

by Lib Fox | Jun 20, 2022 | Behind the Scenes, Blogs, Collections

Museum Stores Our team love sharing what they do, so thoroughly enjoy the chance to welcome students for work experience. Arib, Charlotte, Isobel and Isolda joined Ipswich Museums between 13th – 17th June. During their week they spent time with a variety of...

Landscape Rebels Art Projects Panel

by Lib Fox | Feb 2, 2022 | Behind the Scenes, Blogs, Exhibitions

Landscape Rebels Art Projects Panel By Eleanor Root and Emma Roodhouse, Collections and Learning Curators Ipswich Museums Service would like your ideas to shape our next round of artist projects! ‘Landscape Rebels’ is our next exhibition at Christchurch Mansion,...

Ice Age Fossils

by Lib Fox | Nov 23, 2021 | Behind the Scenes, Blogs, Documentation, Funding Application Blog

Ice Age Fossils Ancient Weather “Forecasters” of the Past By Dr. Simon Jackson, Collections and Learning Curator, Ipswich Museums New research is investigating and reconstructing the unknown climates and environments of the past. Today, we feature...

Hollytrees Cushion Project Update

by Lib Fox | Sep 9, 2021 | Behind the Scenes, Blogs

Hollytrees Cushion Project Update By Megan Fowler, Visitor Information Assistant Earlier this year, we announced that Colchester Museums and the Visitor Information Centre were joining forces to create some very special new window seat cushions for Hollytrees Museum....

Decoding the Roman Dead: A Bit Of Background

by Lib Fox | Jul 15, 2021 | Behind the Scenes, Blogs, Collections, Exhibitions

Decoding the Roman Dead: A Bit Of Background By Glynn Davis, Senior Collections and Learning Curator and Lead Curator for the ‘Decoding the Roman Dead’ exhibition * Click on the photos below to visit our Collections Online database and discover more. * Decoding...

Botanising Turner

by Lib Fox | Dec 1, 2020 | Art, Behind the Scenes, Blogs, Collections

Botanising Turner Guest blog by Dr David Waterhouse, Senior Curator of Natural History at Norfolk Museums Service Many of us have heard of forensic entomology – where the succession of various insects and other invertebrates found on corpses are used to figure out...