#Museum30 #MuseumLoveStory For many years I have been inspired, cared for, conserved, exhibited and enthused on the Cardiff Curator collection of #Blaschka Glass Models Amgueddfa Caerdydd :-) Definitely a highlight of the job!

We are shocked and saddened by the racist, anti-migrant and Islamophobic violence on our streets. We hold in the Light everyone feeling scared right now and uphold all those contributing to peaceful relations and conditions in our communities 🙏 quaker.org.uk/news-and-event…

We should be doing this for all the #minerals in our phones. Sadly most people don’t even know that #geology powers our electronic world! Royal Mint starts turning e-waste into gold bbc.com/news/articles/…

#Eclogite, the most beautiful type of rock on earth, consisting of green omphacite and red garnet. It’s formed at great depths of more than 35 km from subducted basaltic ocean crust, and then exhumed back to the surface by tectonics, simply magnificent.

Famous Stonehenge stone came from Scotland not Wales bbc.com/news/articles/…

The Dinohunters - palaeontologists are unearthing secrets from when dinosaurs walked the land and changing what we know about evolution in Wales. Find out more about the palaeontologists Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales via the following link 🦖🦕bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Suspected burglar caught after sitting down with book bbc.com/news/articles/…

Copper works reopening hits 'significant milestone'… would be great to share the mineral collections ⁦⁦Cardiff Curator⁩ has relating to this historically significant and nationally relevant site. bbc.com/news/articles/…

✨Preliminary petrographic and geochemical characterization of the August eruption at Sundhnúksgígar avaiable at this link 🌋: earthice.hi.is/eruption-sundh…

Another example of understanding #geology being key to our decarbonisation and modern use of materials. Mine water could heat thousands of Welsh homes bbc.com/news/articles/…

For World Rhino day, we've gone back in time with this cast of a woolly rhino foot! The cast was made from a virtually complete mummified carcass discovered in a ozokerite (mineral wax) mine in Ukraine 🇺🇦 #WorldRhinoDay 🦏

Nice to see other people in Wales appreciating rocks too - even if they don’t realise the role they play in coastal defence - think of the stories those stones around his fishpond could tell! Pinched pebble plea as crucial beach rocks taken bbc.com/news/articles/…

Well that’s one way to ensure security.. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Snakes, toad stones and fairy loaves – magical tales and folklore of fossils - You won't want to miss this #Halloween look behind the scenes in the fossil collections Amgueddfa Caerdydd 📆31/10/24 ⏰2pm 🎟️£8 museum.wales/cardiff/whatso…

Congratulations to #Rhodochrosite for winning #MinCup24 . Let's meet at #MinCup25 . Thank you to Joanna Scheffler Suzanne Hedderly @MicrotoPico mantle overburden 🛣️ 🏔️🌊 Franquet ☕️🏹 Laurie and Rosie Strings 🎃 fernanda castano @GabeEggers Kindness is an ARMY⁷ Ferno Moira Malcolm 🇺🇦🐾 Rita Martins Michael Anenburg 🦀skippy the kangaroo🦀

Fixing Our Broken Planet: Community of Practice 🌎 Join us on the 11th & 12th November for a free event which aims to enhance the museum sector’s resilience, with a focus on empowering our youth audiences Sign up to attend here: forms.office.com/e/xQ9yDJvrnR

The Triassic has much to answer for.

Islanders asked to identify sites for Unesco bids bbc.com/news/articles/…

I’m joining the march away from Twitter. I’ve met some lovely folks here and I’m hoping to find you all again in sunnier skies 🥏🩵

Heather, Calluna vulgaris. Typically up to 60cm. Leaves opposite, stalkless. Small purplish-pink flowers with purplish-green bracts. 4 pink sepals and petals, 8 stamens, curved style protrudes beyond flower.