THE BULL A female art student called Rosemary Young created this bronze Bull in 1951 and won the prestigious Slade Sculpture Prize. However, following graduation she largely gave up her own work to focus on casting and producing her tutor Reg Butler’s work, eventually becoming his second wife. Young describes how few of her female …
98 PLASTIC DINOSAURS ABOUT THIS ITEM The Zoology Museum at UCL holds the very special exhibit of 98 plastic dinosaurs. A common question museum staff get asked about their skeletons is, “is it a dinosaur?”. It probably isn’t. But they do have plastic! Visit the museum when you can to check out these little toy …
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CUPBOARDS OF DISAPPEARING ARTEFACTS ABOUT THE OBJECT UCL Cultures holds hundreds of thousands of objects in their collections, but most rarely see the light of day. The vast majority of objects are stored underground, in cupboards and drawers of often unknown specimens. The Grant Museum of Zoology, for example, only has 7% of its 68,000-strong …