Natural Sciences Collections Association

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The theme for next March's NatSCA conference is "Use It or Lose It: Unlocking Potential", on 29th and 30th March 2012 in London at the Horniman Museum and Gardens and the Grant Museum of Zoology, with additional tours on 28th and 31st.

Call for papers
We are seeking proposals for papers at the conference covering the following topics:

CARING FOR BOTANICAL COLLECTIONS  

A NatSCA seminar to explore basic botany collection management, curation and conservation.  

CARING FOR ENTOMOLOGY COLLECTIONS

A NatSCA seminar to explore basic entomology collections management, curation and conservation techniques.  

Doncaster Museum Service is inviting applications for an Effective Collections Project, to review its shell collection (as part of the wider Natural Science collection).

The project is split into two parts. For each part we are looking for the following:

Part 1: Someone to review the shell collection as part of the wider natural history collections

Part 2: Someone to assess the educational, display and outreach potential of a collection

In terms of applications of interest we are therefore looking for:

1. One consultant to apply to undertake Part 1 and Part 2

‘Coping
with cuts’

Natural Sciences Collections
Association

Conference & AGM

3^rd – 4^th
March 2011

The next NatSCA conference and AGM will be in Newcastle in March 2011. The conference will be split into two topics: “Coping with cuts” on the Thursday and “Coping with collections deterioration” on the Friday.

Coping with cuts - Thursday 3^rd March

In our new Wye Tour gallery, there is a deep 'plinth' that runs around some of the room, and we are putting in animals and birds that live, or have lived in the Valley, and there are little doors to open (light comes on, and the sound that the animal makes will be heard). Specimens will be behind glazed panel and not touchable! I have been able to borrow a number of specimens from Newport Museum.

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Documentation Assistant Geology

This post involves the identification, cataloguing and documentation
of geological specimens of both local and international origin.

Torquay Museum’s geological collections consist of around 6,000
undocumented geological samples of local, national and international
origin.