Nature's Memory - Behind the Scenes at the World's Natural History Museums

This book is like many a museum - full of wonder and intrigue. Ashby opens the doors to their inner workings, telling us how they developed and how they are developing. Some of the stories are frustrating, others fantastical, some may even make you laugh (honestly who knew that about the Penguins) but all are thought-provoking>

About the author

Jack Ashby is the Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, an honorary research fellow in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London, and the President of the Society for the History of Natural History. He is the author of Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals and Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects, and winner of the Zoological Society of London’s award for communicating zoology. He lives in Hertfordshire.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Ashby, Ashby Jack
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 23.04.2026
• EAN: 9781802063837
• ISBN: 978-1-80206-383-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; NATURE / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, ART / Museum Studies, HISTORY / Historiography, Zoology & animal sciences, The environment, Colonialism & imperialism, Historiography, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Science / Environmental Science, Colonialism and imperialism, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Zoology and animal sciences, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies