Spotlight on... Hannah Cornish

Hannah Cornish This week we meet Hannah Cornish, Curator at the recently reopened Grant Museum of Zoology. Hannah chats to us about working on the redisplay project and finding ways to tell new stories with the collection, as well as revealing the fate of the much-loved Jar of Moles. What is your role and what does it involve?. I am the curator of the Grant Museum of Zoology here at UCL, and my job is to provide intellectual access to our collection of 68,000 specimens. This includes helping to design and facilitate teaching in the museum for around 3,000 students a year, working with researchers and artists, managing the documentation of the collection, and collaborating on events, exhibitions, and projects with colleagues from across the museums team and beyond. Recently my job has been all'about the redisplay of the Grant Museum. After 10 months and 10,000 object moves we have just re-opened, and the Museum looks fantastic.