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Alice Roberts crouching down next to a model of a dinosaur, surrounded by foliage

Garden of Evolution wins best in show at BBC Gardeners’ World Live

Alice Roberts standing on an ornate bridge

Alice Roberts creates headline garden at BBC Gardeners’ World Live

Vintage illustration of a long-necked plesiosaur under attack by a pliosaur.

International Women’s Day 2026

Presenters Maddie and Cam stand in amazement in front of an Allosaurus skeleton.

BBC Live Lessons visit the Lapworth Museum

A series of dinosaur fossils on a museum trolley.

Fun with Fossils: Using Museum Collections in the 21st Century

J. D. Dixon stands, broom in hand, alongside a fossil sauropod trackway.

A Curator's Grand Day Out

University students and researchers above a canyon in Utah.

Celebrating 125 Years of Palaeo Research and Education

A woman in a pink jumper lifts a box from a shelf.

Museum volunteer provides personal perspective on Lapworth

Silhouette of William, Frank, and Mary Buckland examining an array of fossils. Adapted from Gordon (1894).

International Women’s Day 2025

The headline from the article.

The best museums and galleries in the UK – which don’t cost a penny

Roary the Allosaurus in the centre of the Lapworth Museum.

Birmingham to Host Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s 85th Annual Meeting

Trackways in Carboniferous-aged sandstone from Alveley, Shropshire.

Carboniferous Curios: the Alveley Footprints

Charles Lapworth photographed as a younger man.

Professor Charles Lapworth (1842–1920)

Five scientists stood on the dinosaur highway fossil site.

Major new footprint discoveries on Britain’s ‘dinosaur highway’

Spyway dinosaur footprints.

Walking with Dinosaurs in Dorset – The Spyway Sauropod Footprints

Sketch of the head of Megalosaurus. Art by Andy Frazer.

Drawing dinosaurs back to life

Students measuring the orbit length of dinosaurs.

Eye to eye with dinosaurs

A woman next to a large outcrop of rock.

A 120-million-year-old mystery: what killed the Hypsilophodon?

An Allosaurus skull.

Curating dinosaurs: an adventure 200 years in the making

Artwork depicting the fossil jaw and reconstructed head of Megalosaurus. Art by Andy Frazer.

Bringing dinosaurs back to life: 200 years of research

An image of the galleries as seen in the Virtual Museum.

Lapworth Virtual Museum: A New Era of Digital Exploration

Two students operate a stall in the Museum for a Family Fun Day.

Curation and creation: the Lapworth Museum of Geology summer scholarship

Students engage with the public at a Family Fun Day stall.

Reflections on a Lapworth Museum Scholarship

A statue of the Fighting Dinosaurs in Mongolia.

Former undergraduate blog reaches Mongolia

Two students stand in the Museum stores observing the vast amount of boxed material.

Getting behind-the-scenes at the Lapworth Museum

A drawer displaying multiple Jurassic marine fossils.

Placement students unveil museum displays

BCMG Young Composers at the Lapworth Museum of Geology

BCMG Young Composers at the Lapworth Museum of Geology

Nummulitic limestone. Image by J. D. Dixon.

Museum team showcase micropalaeontological collection

A series of fossil skulls on a table.

Family Fun with Ferocious Fauna

A tour group in the Museum. Image by Janet Jordan.

Sutton Coldfield Local History Research Group visit the Museum

Sauropods walking across a beach. Artwork by Mark Witton.

University staff describe dinosaur footprints

The Aston Webb erratic boulder.

Erratic signage: 115 years on

Part of a geologic map produced for D-Day overlain by images of Fred Shotton and a sunken military vehicle.

How did geology affect D-Day?

Richard Butler and Jon Clatworthy admire Roary the Allosaurus skeleton in the Lapworth Museum galleries.

Lesser-known Birmingham attraction voted city's 'best hidden gem' and it's free

Cartoon of a woman in Victorian attire carrying a parasol in front of a volcanic landscape.

International Women's Day 2024

A tyrannosaur with a caliper measuring the eye. Artwork by Dr Stephan Lautenschlager.

New publication by palaeontology undergraduate students

Amalia standing in front of the Rock Wall at the Lapworth Museum of Geology.

A Dream Project at the Lapworth Museum of Geology

Both sides of a round gold-coloured medal from the Palaeontological Association

University Professor awarded major palaeontology prize

Large machine delivered by a mini crane.

X-ray CT scanner will reveal secrets of ancient specimens

The original fish skull fossil alongside scans and the final recreation.

Prehistoric fish fills 100 million year gap in evolution of the skull

Roary the Allosaurus is visible through the main museum doors.

A fantastic three-course meal fit for a dinosaur!

Lizzy presents the virtual Incredible Ichthyosaurs session.

Lapworth Museum at the Virtual Festival of Geology 2021

A student examines a rock specimen with a magnifying glass.

Lapworth Museum – Free Resources for Schools and Educational Groups

An Allosaurus skull cast, Velociraptor skull cast, and Deinonychus skull cast.

Funding Success for Lapworth Museum

An actor portrays Mary Anning with nursery children.

Toddlers in the driving seat at the Lapworth Museum

A Cabinet of Curiosities at the Lapworth Museum, featuring a galago skeleton in a woolly hat.

Lapworth Museum of Geology nominated for an award

University of Leicester Students Nok, Weike and George in the Museum.

University of Leicester Placement Students 2018

Shelves of fossil fish and minerals on display.

These are a few of our favorite things

A photograph of Professor Tony Hallam.

Professor Tony Hallam (1933–2017)

The Lapworth Museum galleries.

The Lapworth Museum of Geology has been named a runner-up in Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017

A series of black minerals on display.

Lapworth Museum shows judges for Art Fund Museum of the Year that 'geology rocks'

An Allosaurus skeleton hand and claws.

Lapworth Museum Of Geology Shortlisted For £100,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year 2017

Lapworth Museum secures Arts Council England funding

Richard Butler explains the Museum’s dinosaur fossils to Professor Gong Ke of Nankai University.

President of Nankai University visits Museum

The new Lapworth Museum galleries.

Perspective: the Lapworth and the magic of the natural world

A scorpion in a glass jar on display.

Natural world comes to Birmingham in 2.7 million museum relaunch

The new Lapworth Museum galleries.

Lapworth Museum to reopen

Sandstone slab with fossil footprint.

New insights into footprint tracks

A display of modern animals.

Lapworth redevelopment gathers pace with latest grant announcement

A mineral gallery.

Rock and roll – Lapworth staff celebrate historic multimillion pound redevelopment grant

Richard Butler.

The Conversation: How mass extinctions drove the evolution of dinosaurs

Three volunteers work in the Archives.

Lapworth Museum wins heritage lottery grant and seeks volunteers to help shape its redevelopment

University Geology Museum Designated Collection of Outstanding Importance

Crowds fill the Lapworth Museum galleries.

Prehistory in Colour: A Lapworth Museum Exhibition