Klara, a volunteer LGBTQ+ tour guide at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, talks to us about Franz Nopcsa, a paleontologist widely regarded as one of the founders of paleobiology (the biology of fossil animals and plants).
Julia, a volunteer LGBTQ+ tour guide at The Polar Museum, talks to us about an egg laid by an Adélie penguin in the early 20th century, and its link to some research notes mysteriously translated into Ancient Greek.
A representation of the Hindu godess Durga, made in Kolkata in 2007 and worshipped for ten years in the Cambridge Indian Cultural Society's autumn festival, Durga Puja. In 2017 the society commissioned a new idol, and donated the old one to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Ezra, a volunteer LGBTQ+ tour guide at the Museum of Zoology, talks to us about chimpanzees and bonobos, and how being on different sides of the Congo River would lead to key differences in their respective lifestyles.
