Our second Object Story dedicated to the theme of Indigenous Peoples relates to Biak wood carvings collected by Alfred Russel Wallace from Dorey, New Guinea, in 1858. Biak is now… Read More »Disconnected Stories: The Biak Wood Carvings
Friday 9th August 2019 is the United Nations International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. There are an estimated 370 indigenous people in the world, living across 90 countries. They… Read More »Disconnected Stories: The Yaghan Body Pigments
Several of the people remembered on the memorial plaques at Fort Canning Hill in Singapore died at sea or on board ships in Singapore Harbour. Our final departure story recounts… Read More »Departure Stories: Three Young Lads From Plymouth
Many people remembered on the memorial plaques at Fort Canning Hill in Singapore, departed from somewhere else on their journey. Our second departure story is inspired by the memorial plaques… Read More »Departure Stories: From the Prefecture of Tidal Wave
Many people remembered on the memorial plaques at Fort Canning Hill departed from somewhere else on their journey to Singapore. Over the next few weeks we will explore some of… Read More »Departure Stories: Elizabeth Gray from Sunderland
The Earth Museum is interested in connecting cultural heritage material surviving in the global landscape with people and place, as well as objects now in museums. Our first venture into… Read More »From Singapore to Singaporean: Fort Canning Cemetery
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… Read More »Hoa Hakananai’a Moai
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… Read More »HMS Challenger Sea Stars: Exploring Our Changing Oceans
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… Read More »In Search of Paradise: Wallace’s Collecting Journey in Dorey, New Guinea
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… Read More »Charles Darwin’s Collecting Journey in Tierra del Fuego