How to Spread and Mount a Butterfly – Part III

HMNS entomologist Erin Mills walks you through how to mount and display a butterfly in this 4-part video tutorial. Part III: Setting the Butterfly Part III continues below:  Check back next week for our final installment of this video series.

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 3/9-3/15

Bust out your planners, calendars, and PDAs (if you are throwback like that), it’s time to mark your calendars for the HMNS events of this week!   SPRING BREAK 2015 SPECIAL HOURSHMNS Hermann Park (March 8-15):Monday-Sunday: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. HMNS at Sugar Land (March 7-22): Monday-Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Sunday: 12:00 p.m. – […]

Chiddingstone Castle curator Maria Esain lays out her all-time favorite objects

Editor’s Note: Today’s blog post comes to us from Chiddingstone Castle curator Maria Esain. Chiddingstone, located in Edenbridge, Kent in the United Kingdom, loaned significant artifacts to HMNS’ Hall of Ancient Egypt. Many visitors to Chiddingstone ask me the same question: what is your favorite object? I find it the most difficult question to answer, […]

Seeing Stars with James Wooten: The Stars of Spring are Rising

Mars remains in the west at dusk this month as it moves through Pisces. Mars continues to fade a little each night as Earth continues to leave it farther behind. After this month, Mars begins to be lost in the glare of the Sun. Venus is in the west at dusk. Venus overtook Mars on […]

Mark Your Calendars for these events happening at HMNS 3/2-3/8

Bust out your planners, calendars, and PDAs (if you are throwback like that), it’s time to mark your calendars for the HMNS events of this week!   Lecture – Medicine Without Evolution Is Like Engineering Without Physics By Randolph M. NesseTuesday, March 36:30 p.m. Evolutionary medicine uses the basic science of evolutionary biology to improve […]


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