by Dr Thera Edwards, The Map and Image Library, The UWI Mona
The Map and Image Library of the Department of Geography and Geology received a collection of some ten thousand aerial photographs of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s Commonwealth Caribbean from Royal Holloway College of the University of London in the summer of 2016 (see Edwards and McGregor, 2019).
Dr Amy Deacon and Ms Jennalee Ramnarine, The Department of Life Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
Hidden within the Department of Life Sciences at The University of the West Indies St. Augustine there is a spectacular treasure trove, brimming with preserved zoological specimens.
This Aladdin’s Cave is otherwise known as the UWI Zoology Museum (UWIZM), and its collections date back to the 1920s.
Curator, National Herbarium of Trinidad and Tobago Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology University of West Indies, St. Augustine Campus Trinidad and Tobago
This is the second in our International Museums Day Blog Series ‘Exploring The UWI Museums’