John Edmonstone and His Influence on Darwin

Many people have heard of Charles Darwin, the naturalist, geologist and biologist…

Rollerball (1975)

At first glance, Norman Jewison’s 1975 film Rollerball is easy to pin down. The film is based around three games of an…

How do you collectively create an exhibition?

A collective made up of local community groups, an artist and Horniman staff…

Exploring the Ancient Egyptians to under the sea

Keli Jenner, PGCE student, completed a placement with the Schools Learning Team in April. Keli tells us her…

A Podcast Begins…

Each of these podcasts will examine a set of relationships between natural history and science fiction.

Species Seeking on Saint Helena

A small and remote island full of unique wildlife in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean

Later this week I will be setting off, in my capacity as Keeper of Natural History at the Horniman Museum and Gardens in London, on what I hope will be the…

The pioneering Anna Atkins

We’d like to take the chance to introduce you to a pioneering female scientist whose work we hold in the Horniman Collections: Anna Atkins.

Making an exhibition: processes and techniques

As the year progressed into summer, the Studio Collective turned to the more…

M-Class Planets

Back in the 1960s, the tv show Star Trek developed some conventions, basically for the convenience of storylines and production budgets.

Firstly, aliens, for the most part, looked like humans, albeit with a few superficial variations (pointy ears, green skin etc). Secondly…