Really important milestone today with the appointment of architects to lead the design and investigative works phase of the project with support of Department of Culture, Communications and Sport and Office of Public Works Our Ground floor will remain open until Sept for visitors to come to Dublin's Dead Zoo National Museum of Ireland

There I am chatting about this incredible project ahead for Dublin's Dead Zoo National Museum of Ireland we’ve a great team in place through expertise of FKP Architecture Office of Public Works and support of Department of Culture, Communications and Sport through NDP.

The Natural History Museum in Dublin is to close from September for a number of years to facilitate major refurbishment works | Read more: rte.ie/b/1454663

Thanks so much to Evelyn O'Rourke for coming to the National Museum of Ireland Dublin's Dead Zoo on Friday to help us get the word about the much needed refurbishment project, and also the new Dead Zoo Lab that will open at Collins Barracks. Those elephants won't forget you!! 😄

Cynthia Longfield (16 Aug 1896 London-27 June 1991 #Cloyne #Cork 94). 'Madam Dragonfly'; expert! Travelled🌍(often alone)! Research associate Natural History Museum & wrote book! Some named in her honour! Specimens/records/books Royal Irish Academy Library National Museum of Ireland Dublin's Dead Zoo ecosystemsinthesky.com/blog/owtjw7fg5…

Join Lynn Scarff , Director of the National Museum of Ireland, on a special evening tour of the Dead Zoo where she will share personal highlights of the collection in the Ground Floor gallery of Natural History this Thursday 4th July @ 6pm museum.ie/en-IE/Museums/…

‘No daughter of mine will leave home except as a married woman’. Born on Valentia Island, self-taught marine biologist Maud Delap was the first person to successfully breed jellyfish in captivity. Our colleague Angela Byrne has put together a short reel about her life. #DIBLives

My kind of late night...

Hope everything goes well with finishing up! Looking forward to working with you on the decant in September!

Generous with her time, especially with young researchers, 'Madam Dragonfly' Cynthia Longfield (b. #OTD 1896) travelled extensively throughout the world, always with net in hand. In 1983 she was made first fellow of the British Dragonfly Society. dib.ie/biography/long… #DIBLives

This month, SIGNIFY celebrates our 2nd year anniversary 🎉🎂 A big part about the project revolves around specimen we digitisation, so what better way to celebrate this than showcasing specimens whose names start with the letters that make up S-I-G-N-I-F-Y 🤩

SIGNIFY presents "Singapore at The Dead Zoo", a collaborative effort with National Museum of Ireland – Natural History & celebrates 50 years of diplomatic ties between Ireland and Singapore through natural history. Join us as we celebrate the official launch!🎉 Dublin's Dead Zoo

This has been a really enjoyable project to collaborate on with the fantastic SIGNIFY team! A great way to share and better understand the National Museum of Ireland specimens from Singapore and some of the stories of the collectors.

On 30 August 2024, LKCNHM and Embassy of Ireland Singapore had the pleasure of launching the Museum’s newly published booklet, ‘Singapore at The Dead Zoo: Celebrating Fifty Years of Ireland-Singapore ties’ by SIGNIFY, with the support of National Museum of Ireland! 🔗: lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/latest-news/ti…

This project has been such a pleasure to be involved with. Not only because of how much we've learned about our collections from Singapore, but also due the wonderful experience of working with the lovely SIGNIFY team. Such a wonderful group of people!

Short-tailed Voles have short tails, who knew? Paolo Viscardi from the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History National Museum of Ireland on a species new to Ireland at #AIMS2024 All-Ireland Mammal Symposium 2024

Interesting taxidermy installation at #AIMS2024 ATU Galway City highlighting wildlife deaths due to free roaming domestic cats - a bell could halve the damage caused warpped.wixsite.com/warpped

Jane Stephens (9 Oct 1879 #Clontarf #Dublin-11 Dec 1959).👩‍🎓 Alexandra College Dublin, 2nd♀️degree Royal Uni Ireland (Geology/Biology)! Assistant Naturalist Dublin's Dead Zoo 1905-20! Specialist in Porifera & Cnidaria; ID'd >40 new sponge species! In Clare Island Survey. museum.ie/en-IE/Collecti…

We have recently added validated records of Sea Spiders (Pycnogonids) to the exploreyourshore.ie database. Thanks to Dr. Jamie Maxwell of NaturalHistoryDublin for validating records for this under recorded group.

The faces of some common wasp species (and 2 bee species) that visit Irish bee hotels. Specimens examined at Dublin's Dead Zoo from a nesting study by Simon Hodge