New Year, New Media
We already have the Herbology blog and the herbarium on twitter (@aristolochia), but from 2016 we will also be contributing images to the Manchester Museum’s Instagram account. So if you’re on Instagram and are interested in museums, herbaria or just beautiful things – please take a look at our images.
Beautiful Botany now starring on @VisitMM twitter
We challenged our inventive Visitor Team staff to find the beautiful botany on the galleries at Manchester Museum and share it on twitter. Here are a few highlights!
Pretty good, eh? I wonder what they’ll spot next?
#dayinthelife
This week is Museum Week on Twitter. The Herbarium has a very active twitter account – you can see it here. Our twitter name is @aristolochia.
Here are the images we posted yesterday – the theme was a day in the life.
9.58am This is the view behind my computer screen. Checking emails and tweeting!
10.17am Volunteer, apprentice & placement student rearranging the materia medica jars. Thanks!
10.30am Botany objects retrieved from conservation after the weekend’s I ♡Mcr Big Saturday
11.53am a well-earned tea break with botany volunteers. Shame there was no milk left!
12.07pm Planning how to inspire students with our specimens ahead of Ecuadorian field course with @rfpreziosi @HenryMcr
1.02pm University photographers taking Rachel’s photos for promotional material
1.07pm Found a moss for a loan to the University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
1.14pm Moss loan: a type specimen of Hypnum tenuicaule, collected by Richard Spruce, Pyrenees
3.46pm Looking out specimens for up-coming exhibitions: Whitworth park Archaeology and Siberia
5.10pm Last specimen of the day: horse chestnut leaf from Whitworth Park
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