We made a film in July 2025 to document continuing celebration around the subject of Hollington's local dinosaur in #TheDinosaurOnYourDoorstep. Huge thanks to all involved and to our funders @royalsociety.org @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_fl... @hastingsbc.bsky.social

A nice record of a continuing project that I initiated in 2022.

The willingness to engage with recycling initiatives is already outstripping the infrastructure needed to support it. To me, this underlines the need to untangle our reliance on plastics and develop circular economies at an industrial level.

No to appeasement!

Are you an avid crime buff 🕵️? From 10:30am tomorrow to coincide with the final weekend of the Agatha Christie: The Queen of Crime🕵️♀️ exhibition, meet local crime writers, explore their work & get your books signed. www.hmag.org.uk/event/crime-... @hastingsbc.bsky.social #CrimeWritersDay #Hastings

Missed our 'News from the Sector, June 2025' blog? Read it here now!👇 geocollnews.wordpress.com/2025/07/09/n...

There are some weird & wonderful objects in the Museum’s stored collections. One of them is a strange egg-laying mammal that looks like a mix of a duck, beaver & an otter. The platypus is now on temporary display in our natural history gallery. youtu.be/jp4X4Krl-DY @hastingsbc.bsky.social

Are you an avid crime buff 🕵️‍♂️? From 10:30am on 9 August to coincide with the final weekend of the Agatha Christie: The Queen of Crime🕵️‍♀️ exhibition, meet local crime writers, explore their work & get your books signed. www.hmag.org.uk/event/crime-... @hastingsbc.bsky.social #CrimeWritersDay #Hastings

There are still places available for 'Your Place: Researching the History of Your Home'. In this interactive session, learn about what resources you can use at the museum to research the history of your home or where you live. www.hmag.org.uk/event/your-p... @hastingsbc.bsky.social

Have you seen our newly revamped Dinosaurs gallery yet? It's full of beautiful artwork by Ellie Fryer based on the fossils that tell us what Hastings was like 140 million years ago during the #Cretaceous period. #FossilFriday #Dinosaurs #Geology @hastingsbc.bsky.social‬ youtube.com/shorts/1x0MC...

Our favourite exhibits in Agatha Christie exhibition has to be the recreation of the Orient Express interior, complete with real train noises! #AgathaChristie #TheQueenOfCrime #Hastings @hastingsbc.bsky.social #FREE

Have you seen episode 1 of the new @BBCEarth #WalkingWithDinosaurs? 🦖It features Triceratops, found in the USA & Canada. In our collection we have this section of brow horn with well preserved blood vessels. How it came to be here is a bit of a mystery. #FossilFriday @hastingsbc.bsky.social

Each month @originalgcg.bsky.social publishes a blog newsletter. This month has some very special content and opportunities.

​In our latest blog "Bad Bling," Lu Allington-Jones and Robin Hansen delve into the challenges of using certain minerals in jewellery due to their instability, toxicity, or fragility!💎 Give it a read here 👇 geocollnews.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/b...

Published in 1975, the book The Evolution and Ecology of the Dinosaurs 🦕 by Bev Halstead is now 50 years old. The illustrations may be dated, but they represent an important stage in science, and in the representation of dinosaurs, as one of the first #dinosaur books in printed colour #FossilFriday

Check out our latest blog post by Dr Duncan Murdock! 🦖 We asked him six questions about his day-to-day work as Earth Collections Manager at Oxford University Museum of Natural History and editor of GCG’s Journal ‘Geological Curator’. Give it a read here 👇 geocollnews.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/s...

GCG are proud to be supporting Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025! 🌟 #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences. To read more about this initiative, please visit: www.neurodiversityweek.com/introduction

If you're interested in exploring inclusion and neurodiversity, particularly in Geoscience and museums, we invite you to join GCG's EDI Symposium on April 9th - 11th. The event is free, and you don't need to be a GCG member - everyone is welcome! Register at: www.geocurator.org/events/182-e...

Are you interested in learning more about cutting-edge techniques for visualising and analysing extinct & extant organisms?🦖 Then join us for GCG's Digital Morphology Workshop at the University of Leeds on April 1st, 2025! Secure your spot before March 24th here: www.geocurator.org/events/183-d...

News from the Sector, March 2025: ▪GCG’s EDI Symposium ▪Exhibitions: Hidden in Stone (Southampton), Breaking Ground (Oxford), Stories from DEEP TIME (Hastings) ▪Lectures: Unnatural History Museum & Palaeoverse ▪Publications: Geoconservation Research Read our latest blog post to find out more! 👇

#OTD today is the 200th anniversary of the reading Gideon Mantell's paper to @royalsociety.org naming Iguanodon on 10 Feb 1825. The name comes from the similarity of the dinosaur's teeth to those of the Iguana. Dinosaurs with similar teeth found in #Hastings were also given this name in later years.

From 2pm to 4pm, 23 Feb meet SOCO artists behind the beautiful and diverse artworks in Stories from DEEP TIME. Over the last year they've worked extremely hard to research & create a series of artworks inspired by the geological collection at the museum and our local geology. @hastingsbc.bsky.social

📢 In the latest GCG blog, Simon Harris, Collections Digitisation and Conservation Manager at @britgeosurvey.bsky.social, discusses the application of EasyLog Ambient Pharma in geological curation. Give it a read here: geocollnews.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/g...

Meet Siân Evans, a working coppersmith who investigates the ancient metalworking techniques found in archaeological relics from around the world. Siân will be part of our annual Relics Roadshow on 15 February 10-4pm. www.hmag.org.uk/event/relics... @hastingsbc.bsky.social

Philip Rufford was born #OTD in 1852. For many years, he was the Museum's authority on natural history & images from his book 'The Geology of the East Cliff, Hastings' feature in our new exhibition, 'Stories from DEEP TIME', now OPEN. www.hmag.org.uk/see-and-do/e... @hastingsbc.bsky.social #Hastings

The topic of decolonisation of museum collections is relevant across all collection themes. https://buff.ly/40OH0sX #FossilFriday

📢 New on the GCG blog: Celebrating Dr Susan Turner's remarkable 50-year journey as a geologist and geological curator. Give it a read here: geocollnews.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/s...

Calling all local community creatives! We're now seeking a partner to work with us on the delivery of a programme of community outreach in Ore as part of our NPO. Deadline 23 Feb 2025. #Hastings www.hmag.org.uk/see-and-do/p... @hastingsbc.bsky.social

My blog on the Hastings museum geology collection.

We are very pleased to be able to bring you the newest issue of our journal, Geological Curator – 11(9)! From Trilobite thin section analysis, to Hastings’ dinosaur heritage - login to give it a read here! 👇 www.geocurator.org/journal

📣 Abstract submission is now open for GCG's 'Moving towards inclusive spaces in Geoscience collections and workplaces' symposium! If you'd like to speak at this event, please submit a brief summary of your talk to edi.geocurator.org by the 21st February 2025! 📅

In the latest GCG blog, Rachel Walcott looks back on a decade in the ‘new’ National Museums Scotland Natural Science Collection Storage and Research Facility. 📖 Read it here: geocollnews.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/l...