Our graduates all leave here equipped to do well in a wide variety of services and industries, but we believe that James Hogg (BSc Economics and Economic History, 2022) is the first to open a museum.
The Yorkshire Natural History Museum: https://ynhm.org/, in Sheffield is the first northern museum completely dedicated to the subject and, it made the national news on it’s opening day when an exhibit was identified by Dean Lomax, a palaeontologist and ichthyosaur expert, as being the oldest complete ichthyosaur embryo ever found in Britain.
The small museum, which has more laboratory space than gallery space, is driven by James’s passion for natural history. As he told The Guardian “it is such an interesting subject. It is such a fascinating concept – to actually understand life before human existence.”
If you find yourself in the area, why not pop in?