Sad news from New York today that the Morbid Anatomy Museum isn’t going to make it. After 2+ years of blood, sweat and tears they have decided to close their doors . It made me realise that if Gympie wants our museum to succeed then you are really going to have to get behind us. If you want a world class facility full of tourists, scientists, students, teachers, artists and tradespeople you are going to have to support us. If you want a community hub that provides jobs and income that will bypass-proof this town of ours then you are going to have to show up to events, talk about it to everyone you know, make suggestions, promote it and – most of all – love it. 
❤ Because it takes a village to bring up a museum and you’re my village. We’ll give you 200% and we’ll make you proud but we really can’t do it without you.
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Gympie Bones make an appearance at Rest In Pieces Taxidermy Christmas party
Hey, what’s that there on that beautifully laid out table??? A jar of Gympie Bone Museum delicious Flesh Eating Beetles? How’d that get there??
Behold the Rest In Pieces Christmas party table made glorious by Put Your Heart Into It
If you’d like to meet the team from Rest In Pieces and get a look at our old Gympie bones at the same time you can come along to the Art of Taxidermy talk in Brisbane on Nov 18. Or sign up for one of their other workshops. We really can’t recommend them enough.
No bones about, these bone pens are the bees knees
These bone pens in 5 different skeletal shapes are even better in person than they look in the photos. I ordered 50 of them online and I was so impressed with the quality when they arrived.
They sit really nicely in your hand and have black ink which has made them hugely popular with nurses who need to use black pens on their paperwork.
They’ve been so popular that I’ve had to order more already.
They’re the perfect Christmas stocking stuffer for the lab tech, med student, nurse, science teacher, little learner or special nerd in your life. You can get them online from our friends at Dissection Connection who will make sure every cent comes back to the Gympie Bone Museum project.
Some of us have innies and some of us have outies
I’ve decided that in honor of our resident expert in all things museums, collections and dead things generally – who happens to be an invertebrate palaeontologist – that our first collection and exhibition out to be about those of us that let it all hang out. The invertebrate that have exoskeletons. Who don’t hide their bony bits under layers of mush and muscle but put it out there in glorious calcium carbonate. Here’s a particularly lovely example of an exoskeleton from Plant Presents that lives on my verandah. Plant Presents is another Gympie gold nugget. If you haven’t checked them out already you should have a look now.
A bit of catacombs style brought to Gympie
Thanks to Gympie Party World our little pop up shop at the Rainbow Beach Spring Festival really looked the part. Working with Gympie businesses like these is going to be such a pleasure.
Skull teaspoons deliver a spoonful of sugar to the coffers
Monster pops will be a festival favourite
Our first fundraising foray will be a stall at the Rainbow Beach Spring Festival. Although we’ve had lots of weird and wonderful ideas there comes a point where you have to accept that sometimes you just have to keep it simple. These are cheap and quick to make but effective and they make people laugh. Hopefully they’ll be a hit at the festival.
