Bell Pettigrew Natural History Museum

25/04/2020

Museums of the University of St Andrews

⚓️🌊Learn about the Challenger Expedition and why it was dubbed the beginning of modern oceanography in this video from the Museums of the University of St Andrews.

Please note: we will be closing this page at the end of the month and sharing all future Bell Pettigrew content from the Museums of the University of St Andrews. Happy Saturday!

This is a reupload, we apologise that our video cut off before.

It's Earth Day!

Join us for our next Wellbeing Wednesday. Today, learn about the Challenger Expedition and why it was dubbed the beginning of modern oceanography...

To delve a bit deeper on Earth Day, check out our Museums blog with an insight from our archive on the Bell Pettigrew Museum, described by the great man Sir David Attenborough himself as “a spectacular reminder of how important a museum can be in the study of the natural sciences".

Find the blog here: http://museumblog.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/…/welcome-to-the-bel…/

11/04/2020

Dundee Science Centre

Dundee Science Centre

Have a little read about our Home Learning Programme on TheCourier.co.uk this morning 👇

28/02/2020

Museums of the University of St Andrews

Join us at the Bell Pettigrew Museum with poet Vicky Husband to explore themes of navigation, direction and the heavens by responding to old navigational equipment held in the Wardlaw Museum’s collections.

Make time for your own writing at this half-day workshop on Tuesday 3 March, 14:00 - 16:30.

Tickets available through the Byre Theatre website - http://ow.ly/9Zxl50yxzUW

19/02/2020

Museums of the University of St Andrews

Museums of the University of St Andrews

“The ways we learned about the world when we were babies was through seeing and touching. Perhaps this is why physical models are so good at helping us understand as adults.” - Henry Rae, Senior Teaching Technician, School of Medicine"

Model makers are both artist and scientist. Educational models have a long history in University teaching and Senior Teaching Technician Henry Rae is an experienced and creative practitioner.

In his workshop at the School of Medicine, he trials new materials, tools and techniques to make educational models for schools across the University.

#Wardlaw2020

09/10/2019

Museums of the University of St Andrews

Spooky, scary skeletons send shivers down your spine. Luckily for us at the Bell Pettigrew Museum, some of our skeletons have been fossilised which means we can still display this little guy hundreds of millions of years later! To start off this spooky Halloween season, our #objectoftheweek is one of our trilobites, a neolenus who lived during the Middle Cambrian, roughly 500 million years ago, in what is now the Rocky Mountains. Thanks to their easily fossilised exoskeleton, we have many examples of this arthropod in the fossil record. How many can you see in the Bell Pettigrew Museum?

08/10/2019

BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Anne Magurran on how to measure biodiversity

BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Anne Magurran on how to measure biodiversity

Professor Anne Magurran on how nature is going the same way as our high streets.

01/08/2019

There's a whole month left to visit The Bell Pettigrew Museum!

Here's Ellen our Head of Public Engagement being a Sugar Glider 😂 a small marsupial possom who loves sugary foods (although Ellen prefers coffee!)

Come along and share your photos of being your favourite animal in the museum. We are open weekday afternoons 1 - 5 pm 😁🐦🦓🐆🦊🐵🦍🐶

29/07/2019

Activities this week in the museum! 😀🦓🐧

Come to The Bell Pettigrew Museum this week to see our fantastic fossils! Get a chance to handle and make some fossils to discover more about our fascinating world.
Drop in from 2pm to 4pm, Monday to Friday.