An old wooden signpost from a national park is on display in the Natural History Museum, due to having 12 species of lichen living on it. The fingerpost from Exmoor has been part of the ‘Fixing Our Broken Planet’ exhibition at the museum since April to act as an example of an item recovered from...
A rare copy of the first complete translation of the Bible into Welsh, printed in 1588, will go on display in Wales for the first time. The book was translated in the year of the Spanish Armada – when Elizabeth I was monarch – by Bishop William Morgan as part of an effort to bring...
An almost 200-year-old condom has just gone on display at an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It is thought to be made of a sheep’s appendix and features an explicit print representing a nun and three clergymen. The rare artefact dates back to 1830 and was purchased by the museum at an auction last...