Welcome to the first Guest Object Story on The Earth Museum, prepared by Max Robertson. Our vision is to enable anyone anywhere to become a Global Storyteller, like Max, and create content for The Earth Museum. Max is an IT specialist living in Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. He is aRead More →
In September 2016, the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter launched the HMS Challenger collections website. Their website brings together all the known specimens collected by HMS Challenger during its scientific expedition to explore the world’s oceans from 1872 to 1876. Funded by the John Ellerman Foundation, it is aRead More →
Alfred Russel Wallace was thirty-one years old when he arrived in Singapore on 19th April 1854. He had come to collect natural history specimens for sale in London, and to develop his scientific knowledge about the natural world. He spent the next eight years travelling across the Malay archipelago onRead More →
Charles Darwin made three excursions into the waters of Tierra del Fuego and the Magellan Strait on HMS Beagle. In the Antarctic summer of 1832-3, the ship’s company surveyed the southern-most islands of this archipelago, while also returning three local people to their homelands. These three, o’rundel’lico (Jemmy Button), el’leparuRead More →
