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Understanding Audiences: The Popularity of Museum Galleries

NatSCA are pleased to present the findings of an Arts Council England funded study into the audiences of mixed discipline museums.

We hope that this information will allow us to better understand how natural science galleries are perceived by the public and to allow other Subject Specialist Networks and museums to gain an insight to their audiences.

SPNHC/NatSCA/GCG in Cardiff

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Sunday, June 22, 2014 - 09:00 to Saturday, June 28, 2014 - 14:00
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, Millennium Centre Cardiff Bay

The Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales and partners are honoured to be hosting the 29th NatSCA/SPNHC Annual General Meeting and conference with the theme ‘Historic Collections: Future Resource’. The conference will take place during the week of June 22nd to June 28th, 2014.

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Care and Conservation of Natural History Collections Now Online

You can now find the full text of Care & Conservation of Natural History Collections by David Carter & Annette Walker freely available online here. This out-of-print book is reproduced by NatSCA for your reference with the permission of copyright holders, publishers and all contributors. Thank you to all who helped make this possible. We hope you will find it a valuable resource.

The Journal of Natural Science Collections

We are proud to announce the launch of the Journal of Natural Science Collections, a brand new peer-reviewed journal for people working with natural science collections. Find out more about the new journal here.

You can download a press release about the new journal here.

Our Patrons

We are very pleased to welcome our two new patrons, Professor Alice Roberts and Professor Iain Stewart, who have kindly agreed to use their excellent communication skills to help us in our efforts to advocate natural science collections.

Click here to find out more and download a pdf press release here.

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