The NNM

Beached whale

2012-01-02T10:52:00.000-08:00

Yesterday( new years day) the NNM went to old Hunstanton beach to see a beached sperm whale,it had not actually been stranded here in Norfolk it had died at an RAF bombing centre in Scotland washed away by the tide and washed up here.When the NNM team arrived unfortunately all of the teeth had been removed and the lower jaw had been sawn off.
It has now unfortunately been moved to a landfill

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2011-10-22T10:05:00.000-07:00

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New feathers

2011-08-02T07:12:00.000-07:00

Hank you Eve Merall for giving us some amazing feathers such as stork swan goose and even a flamingo!

Various recent events

2011-08-02T07:08:00.000-07:00

Thursday

met TDM curator
went to cambridge museum of zoology
went to sedgewick museum(thank you very much to Dan,museum curator and Sue,the Directors wife and who also runs the souvenir shop(obtained geode from mexico and trilobite)

Friday

went on our boat on the river bure
saw very large pike,fry,perch,wild brown trout + many others

Saturday

opened the NNM up to the public
Thank you to Dave for showing us his rock collection
Visited Strumpshaw fen

Welcome home!!

2011-07-16T14:37:00.000-07:00

Several months ago (January) the NNM lost some exhibits in London
They have now returned!!
In a very timely arrival for the TDM curator arriving on Thursday .
With him we will be visiting the sedgewick museum of earth sciences and the cambridge museum of zoology in Cambridge (where we will be meeting him)
It may be interesting for him to know that we now have a small rowing boat which we will almost certainly go on in the time he is staying with us,I definitely advise him to bring a camera!!
The list of returned exhibits are as follows
Moose antler
Horseshoe crab
Squirrel tail
Fossilised mammoth tooth
Mermaids purse (dogfish egg case)
Badger skull
Rabbit skull
Porpoise skull
Volcanic rock (from Iceland)
A small meteorite!

new sea urchin carapace and butterfly from goa

2011-07-13T05:59:00.000-07:00

Many thanks to Jane Benstead for providing us with a magnificent sea urchin carapace
and people living at 16 caernarvon rd for giving us a stunning butterfly from Goa
In 1 week the TDM curator will be visiting us so the NNM stall shall be open almost all day from the 18th to the 23rd please feel free to visit at no cost whatsoever

The HNMS blog

2011-07-13T05:48:00.000-07:00

The NNM\TDM have recently created a new blog the heron nature museum society a website where we display the upcoming events to our museums

if you would like to add your museum or collection to this website please email me at

josephbenstead@googlemail.com
the link is shown below
http://heronnaturemuseumsociety.blogspot.com/

Solar powered Light!!

2011-05-28T03:28:00.000-07:00

Thank you anyone who donated money to the NNM last summer with the money that you our visitors have given us we have bought a fantastic solar powered light
Thank you very much!!

Missing exhibits

2011-04-04T13:05:00.000-07:00

If you over the course of the next 6 months happen to visit the NNM you may notice that some of our exhibits this is because the NNM recently went to a quiz event.We brought some of our slightly more mysterious exhibits to see what people there knew,however due to my lack of memory I have left the exhibits in London.
We expect to have the exhibits back by summer at the latest.
The exhibits that we forgot include;

Our male badger skull.
The porpoise skull.
Dried frogs (though we still have many of these on the premises).
The moose antler
And a boar tusk

Library

2011-04-04T12:57:00.000-07:00

The new NNM library is now up catalogued and running thanks to the new NNM stamper and labeler