Last week I had a trip to the resource centre at the Discovery museum. It was a college arranged trip to see the vast eclectic collection of artifacts archived in the cellars below the museum - many of them moved from the Hancock Museum when it was refurbished some years ago. I was taken downstairs into the bowels of the museum where there is a little - well quite large actually - world of some long forgotten , some dusty and some incredible items all stored in secure big rooms with temperature and light gauges and they only see the light when visitors arrive form time to time. It was a fantastic photography opportunity and there was some fab inspiration for potential future design and work... I was able to explore - but not touch some of the more colourful and rarer items the museum has responsibility for documenting and maintaining. The collection is varied and covers everything from stuffed birds used for research eg a puffin on a sick... no legs.. no finesse needed ...