Andrea Hart
@andreahart.bsky.social
Head of Library Special Collections @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social. Love all things paper & vellum, the natural world & its history, mudskippers, running and drinking tea.
Previously @drewyhart on Twitter/X
Previously @drewyhart on Twitter/X
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What happens when humans are classified?
On 19 March, 6pm to 8pm, we’re launching Homo Sapiens | Classifying the Human Animal at the Society, with a panel discussion exploring Carl Linnaeus’ classification of humans and its enduring impact on ideas of race and difference.
Book now: buff.ly/frgzC9H
On 19 March, 6pm to 8pm, we’re launching Homo Sapiens | Classifying the Human Animal at the Society, with a panel discussion exploring Carl Linnaeus’ classification of humans and its enduring impact on ideas of race and difference.
Book now: buff.ly/frgzC9H
January 26, 2026 at 4:45 PM
What happens when humans are classified?
On 19 March, 6pm to 8pm, we’re launching Homo Sapiens | Classifying the Human Animal at the Society, with a panel discussion exploring Carl Linnaeus’ classification of humans and its enduring impact on ideas of race and difference.
Book now: buff.ly/frgzC9H
On 19 March, 6pm to 8pm, we’re launching Homo Sapiens | Classifying the Human Animal at the Society, with a panel discussion exploring Carl Linnaeus’ classification of humans and its enduring impact on ideas of race and difference.
Book now: buff.ly/frgzC9H
Born on this day the amazing Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826) - I remember the first time I set eyes on his original drawings of the Genus Pinus it brought tears to my eyes! Now preserved at @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social digitised and freely available to view nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44...
January 20, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Born on this day the amazing Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826) - I remember the first time I set eyes on his original drawings of the Genus Pinus it brought tears to my eyes! Now preserved at @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social digitised and freely available to view nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44...
So much fun chatting with Josh and Natalie for this podcast in this brilliant #podcast series! If you like monkeys with “trousers”, blue minerals, blancmange references, pufferfish and botanical art you won’t be disappointed 🤣 #collections #art #museumcolleagues #history #lovemyjob
Time for ARTISTIC! This week featuring special guest @andreahart.bsky.social from @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social who shares some incredible stories from our collections. m.youtube.com/watch?v=nVTU...
Natalie finds herself doing an impression of a pufferfish | The 'Perfect' Specimen Ep18
YouTube video by Natural History Museum
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January 19, 2026 at 9:05 PM
So much fun chatting with Josh and Natalie for this podcast in this brilliant #podcast series! If you like monkeys with “trousers”, blue minerals, blancmange references, pufferfish and botanical art you won’t be disappointed 🤣 #collections #art #museumcolleagues #history #lovemyjob
Very proud to have worked with @edwinrose.bsky.social and our other partners in New Zealand and at Cambridge on this. Even happier to see the fruits of Sydney Parkinson’s skill and efforts in glorious high resolution detail nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44... #botanicalart #collaboration
January 16, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Very proud to have worked with @edwinrose.bsky.social and our other partners in New Zealand and at Cambridge on this. Even happier to see the fruits of Sydney Parkinson’s skill and efforts in glorious high resolution detail nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44... #botanicalart #collaboration
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January 8, 2026 at 5:23 AM
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'Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850' is on view until 31st May at the Yale Center for British Art
🌿 Read about Patna's great artists in this new story about painting nature for the East India Company 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...
🌿 Read about Patna's great artists in this new story about painting nature for the East India Company 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...
Patna's great artists: painting nature for the East India Company
Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 750,000 artworks by over 70,000 artists.
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January 8, 2026 at 4:45 PM
'Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850' is on view until 31st May at the Yale Center for British Art
🌿 Read about Patna's great artists in this new story about painting nature for the East India Company 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...
🌿 Read about Patna's great artists in this new story about painting nature for the East India Company 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...
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💚 Thanks to our global BHL community, we reached our USD 50,000 #GiveBHLWings goal by 1 Jan 2026! These funds support BHL’s transition, staff, and infrastructure, keeping biodiversity knowledge open worldwide. Special thanks to our recurring donors. More updates soon. 🌍 📖 🧪 #BHLTransition
January 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM
💚 Thanks to our global BHL community, we reached our USD 50,000 #GiveBHLWings goal by 1 Jan 2026! These funds support BHL’s transition, staff, and infrastructure, keeping biodiversity knowledge open worldwide. Special thanks to our recurring donors. More updates soon. 🌍 📖 🧪 #BHLTransition
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Our historic collections have been seen by a huge range of collaborators and visitors from around the world this year.
Our team are always happy to provide tours for groups and clubs, or for schools and universities. Find out more at buff.ly/WZaTeR6
Our team are always happy to provide tours for groups and clubs, or for schools and universities. Find out more at buff.ly/WZaTeR6
December 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Our historic collections have been seen by a huge range of collaborators and visitors from around the world this year.
Our team are always happy to provide tours for groups and clubs, or for schools and universities. Find out more at buff.ly/WZaTeR6
Our team are always happy to provide tours for groups and clubs, or for schools and universities. Find out more at buff.ly/WZaTeR6
A most wonderful and special building (not that I’m remotely biased!). The colours of the terracotta beautifully captured @bar44.bsky.social 💙
One final image of the interior of the Natural History Museum of London…for now! September 2025 #Photography #InteriorArchitecture #Museum #London 📷
December 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A most wonderful and special building (not that I’m remotely biased!). The colours of the terracotta beautifully captured @bar44.bsky.social 💙
Georg Ehret 💙
Here's our 25-day #NHMAdventCalendar of Library and Archives art. Enjoy! 24. Ananas sativas (Pineapple), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Did you know… #AdventCalendar2025 #Christmas #SpecialCollections #Art #NaturalHistoryMuseum
Alt text: an advent calendar revealing an unpicked pineapple.
Alt text: an advent calendar revealing an unpicked pineapple.
December 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Georg Ehret 💙
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We've put together a 25-day #NHMAdventCalendar of Library and Archives art. Enjoy! 11. The night-blooming Cereus, Robert John Thornton. Did you know... #AdventCalendar2025 #Christmas #SpecialCollections #Art #NaturalHistoryMuseum
Alt text: an advent calendar revealing a round orange fllower.
Alt text: an advent calendar revealing a round orange fllower.
December 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We've put together a 25-day #NHMAdventCalendar of Library and Archives art. Enjoy! 11. The night-blooming Cereus, Robert John Thornton. Did you know... #AdventCalendar2025 #Christmas #SpecialCollections #Art #NaturalHistoryMuseum
Alt text: an advent calendar revealing a round orange fllower.
Alt text: an advent calendar revealing a round orange fllower.
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🐢 The gigantic land-tortoises (living and extinct) in the collection of the British Museum
London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1877.
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London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1877.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:23 AM
🐢 The gigantic land-tortoises (living and extinct) in the collection of the British Museum
London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1877.
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London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1877.
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One of my favorite entomologists, @flygirlnhm.bsky.social, is featured on an episode of @perfect-specimen.bsky.social , and now I am smiling ear to ear. Such a fun watch/listen.
I tried to pick out my favorite quote to help "sell" this skeeet, but there are just too many. Typical. #MoreOfThisPlease
I tried to pick out my favorite quote to help "sell" this skeeet, but there are just too many. Typical. #MoreOfThisPlease
Our first guest brings a powderpuff with wings | The 'Perfect' Specimen Ep14
YouTube video by Natural History Museum
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November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Sharing this lovely lithograph of a #lemur from Voeltzkow’s Säugetiere von Madagascar and Sansibar (1898). Loving its facial expression, fur detail and weird toe nail?!!? #zoologicalart
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Sharing this lovely lithograph of a #lemur from Voeltzkow’s Säugetiere von Madagascar and Sansibar (1898). Loving its facial expression, fur detail and weird toe nail?!!? #zoologicalart
Has been a bit of a #bony day today in the collections - these two plates published in A series of engravings representing the bones of the human skeleton .. by John Barclay in 1819 perhaps being my favourites. Both engraved by E. Mitchell #rarebooks #skeletons #barebones
October 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Has been a bit of a #bony day today in the collections - these two plates published in A series of engravings representing the bones of the human skeleton .. by John Barclay in 1819 perhaps being my favourites. Both engraved by E. Mitchell #rarebooks #skeletons #barebones
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Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians
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October 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Even more #cyanotypes from over 150 years ago by the pioneering Anna Atkins (1799-1871) - her 3 volumes of cyanotypes of British Algae created between 1843-53 preserved @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social all digitised & freely available to view nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44... #photography
This week at the Linnean: Cyanotypes galore!
📸 A cyanotype is a type of photography - a technique using no cameras, but instead a special solution of light-sensitive salts, which is exposed to UV light and then washed
💙 The result is a stunning print of your object, in a rich blue and white hue!
📸 A cyanotype is a type of photography - a technique using no cameras, but instead a special solution of light-sensitive salts, which is exposed to UV light and then washed
💙 The result is a stunning print of your object, in a rich blue and white hue!
October 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Even more #cyanotypes from over 150 years ago by the pioneering Anna Atkins (1799-1871) - her 3 volumes of cyanotypes of British Algae created between 1843-53 preserved @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social all digitised & freely available to view nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44... #photography
“Wonder” the new #exhibition @linneansociety.bsky.social - wonder in title and wonderful in choice of objects, humour and celebration of all things natural world-
y! And what's even better is that it is
free to go see! www.linnean.org/research-col... #collections #proudtrustee #HarryStyles #science
y! And what's even better is that it is
free to go see! www.linnean.org/research-col... #collections #proudtrustee #HarryStyles #science
October 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“Wonder” the new #exhibition @linneansociety.bsky.social - wonder in title and wonderful in choice of objects, humour and celebration of all things natural world-
y! And what's even better is that it is
free to go see! www.linnean.org/research-col... #collections #proudtrustee #HarryStyles #science
y! And what's even better is that it is
free to go see! www.linnean.org/research-col... #collections #proudtrustee #HarryStyles #science
Happy Departmental #Birthday to us! Our shelves are still happily full of wonderful books but I’m just wondering how on earth the ones on the top shelf got there or were retrieved?!? (Loving the ladder too even though a H&S nightmare … ) #libraries #books #NHM #Collections
October 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Happy Departmental #Birthday to us! Our shelves are still happily full of wonderful books but I’m just wondering how on earth the ones on the top shelf got there or were retrieved?!? (Loving the ladder too even though a H&S nightmare … ) #libraries #books #NHM #Collections
For anyone needing a little lift today, here’s a link to the botanical drawing #master that is Georg Ehret (1708-1770) and some of his watercolours held by nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social all freely available to view and make you #smile nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fu... #botanicalart
September 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
For anyone needing a little lift today, here’s a link to the botanical drawing #master that is Georg Ehret (1708-1770) and some of his watercolours held by nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social all freely available to view and make you #smile nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fu... #botanicalart
Delighted to have come across this lovely book for a patron visit - Isabella Sinclair’s Indigenous Flowers of the #Hawaiian Islands (1855). The first book published with colour images of Hawaiian flowering plants. A great blog here blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2019/03/isab... #rarebooks #flowers
September 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Delighted to have come across this lovely book for a patron visit - Isabella Sinclair’s Indigenous Flowers of the #Hawaiian Islands (1855). The first book published with colour images of Hawaiian flowering plants. A great blog here blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2019/03/isab... #rarebooks #flowers
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Mycologist Arthur Peck (1870-1940) was such a fun guy (sorry, not sorry) we've added his 150+ images of British fungi to our Digitised Special Collections buff.ly/DwrpsMW. #NaturalHistoryMuseum #SpecialCollections #NatureInArt #Photography #SciArt #Mushrooms
Alt text: Reel of sepia photos of fungi
Alt text: Reel of sepia photos of fungi
August 29, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Mycologist Arthur Peck (1870-1940) was such a fun guy (sorry, not sorry) we've added his 150+ images of British fungi to our Digitised Special Collections buff.ly/DwrpsMW. #NaturalHistoryMuseum #SpecialCollections #NatureInArt #Photography #SciArt #Mushrooms
Alt text: Reel of sepia photos of fungi
Alt text: Reel of sepia photos of fungi
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Surely one of the most exquisite zoological publications of the nineteenth century: Richard Owen's Monograph on the Aye-Aye (1863), with plates drawn by Joseph Wolf and lithographed by James Erxleben. Also a key statement of Owen's conception of evolution. (The @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social copy.)
August 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Surely one of the most exquisite zoological publications of the nineteenth century: Richard Owen's Monograph on the Aye-Aye (1863), with plates drawn by Joseph Wolf and lithographed by James Erxleben. Also a key statement of Owen's conception of evolution. (The @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social copy.)