News Archive
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16-05-2013
BRLSI will open its 20th Anniversary Exhibition late on Friday 17th May as part of Museums at Night, the annual festival of after-hours cultural opening.
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08-03-2013
The JESBI project has now attracted national media attention, perhaps no surprise when you consider fossils like these!
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05-02-2013
JESBI project features in the local BBC news today. You can read more on their website, or listen to an interview with our curator Matt Williams on the BBC Somerset Breakfast show.
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05-12-2012
Rob Randall (chairman of the BRLSI’s Collections sub-Committee) and Matt Williams (Curator) attended the launch of a new book, published by the Ray Society, about our very own Rev. Leonard Jenyns.
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20-11-2012
Packs of 10 cards, featuring seasonal cartoons from our 19th Century volumes of Punch Magazine, are now available from the BRLSI Welcome desk, priced just £5
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26-09-2012
The BRLSI and its Museum Collection was featured in August's edition of The Bath Magazine.
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06-09-2012
Sometimes particular items in the museum collection require special attention….
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22-08-2012
The preparation of an exhibition is a fantastic opportunity to research particular objects in more detail than we might otherwise have time to.
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25-07-2012
What does a working cement quarry in the Beaujolais region have to do with fossils collected in Somerset 150 years ago? The JESBI project goes international in a new collaboration with Paleorhodania; BRLSI Collections Manager Matt Williams tells all.
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10-05-2012
On Saturday 19th May the BRLSI’s current exhibition, ID Marks of Identity, will be kept open until 8PM as part of Museums at Night. You can see the full programme here.
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16-03-2012
Yesterday (15th March 2012) we let down the Plan of the Somersetshire Coal Canal for the first time in perhaps as much as 40 years. This unique and intriguing manuscript map was produced from the survey for the planned canal by the famous William Smith (often dubbed the “Father of Geology”).
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14-03-2012
On 14th March our Curator, Matt Williams, went Science 'busking' at the Roman Baths, in celebration of National Science & Engineering Week. Matt, a geologist by training, was invited by the Roman Baths to talk to their visitors about the mineral content of the Hot Springs of Bath.
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07-02-2012
This spectacular Carboniferous plant fossil needed careful conservation after 305 million years in the ground, and 150 years in the museum.
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31-01-2012
As museum specimen go this may not look spectacular, but it smells heavenly!
