• 2010
Museum of Life

Summary What happens behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum? Why is it important to preserve the 70 million specimens in the collections? And how relevant is the research of Museum scientists to today's challenges, like biodiversity loss and the spread of tropical disease? This series will answer these questions. View more details

  • 2010

Museum of Life

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Chris van Tulleken Liz Bonnin Jimmy Doherty Mark Carwardine

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7.7

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Mar 17, 2010

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Summary What happens behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum? Why is it important to preserve the 70 million specimens in the collections? And how relevant is the research of Museum scientists to today's challenges, like biodiversity loss and the spread of tropical disease? This series will answer these questions. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Mar 17, 2010

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Museum of Life (2010)

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Episode 1 • Mar 17, 2010
A Museum in a Modern World
Jimmy Doherty gets to grips with Darwin's finches, Dippy the Diplodocus and a radical project aiming to hold back extinction.
Episode 2 • Mar 24, 2010
Digging Up the Past
Jimmy Doherty and the team find out about the discovery of a new dinosaur, the latest thinking on the personality of a T Rex, and what scientists are learning from a human skull over a hundred thousand years old.
Episode 3 • Mar 31, 2010
All Creatures Great and Small
Jimmy Doherty and the team explore projects from the construction of a life-sized whale to a life-saving trip to Uganda. The true image of a dodo is revealed, and a nine-foot sturgeon turns up with the strangest tale of any object in the museum.
Episode 4 • Apr 07, 2010
Discovery
Jimmy Doherty discovers the lengths people go to to add new and rarely studied species to the collection. A colossal squid turns up at the museum, a team of scientists push through unexplored jungle in Panama and a pioneering project finds a new species at the bottom of the sea off the coast of Sweden.
Episode 5 • Apr 14, 2010
The Power of Insects
Jimmy Doherty and the team enter the extraordinary world of insects. They explore the great butterfly collection, meet the most stung man in the museum and discover how the museum is using insects to help at murder scenes.
Episode 6 • Apr 21, 2010
A Collection for the Future
Jimmy Doherty and the team see how science taking place today will impact on all of us in the future. Beetles inspire new technologies, the latest scanner allows scientists to take a trip inside a shark, and ancient specimens are called into the battle to help prevent an extinction.
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