Materials Processing Laboratory

The golden chalice that is the materials processing lab...we'll hopefully get in here and do some filming of Tim and John cutting up rocks...we've decided we need to spend a year here...


Exploring the corridors....

Exploring some of the other labs - the museum is updating all the interior of the science labs so this romantic 19th century style will be disappearing soon we feel like we should be capturing it but oh so many other things to do here...


Cycling home along the mall....

Formulating

Another packed day; a seminar on Super Volcanoes, documenting some of our ideas (not sure if we'll be able to do some of them logistically or time-wise, but excited about their potential none the less!) explored the rock and ore collection more, started on the mineral sciences library......feeling hyper perceptive to what's going on around us which is sparking nuggets of inspiration.

Poking around the rock and ore collection discovering some amazing materials and artefacts:

Reticulite: 'an extreme form of pumice in which all bubbles have burst and become interconnected'





Week 1

This week we've been having some great tours of all that goes on here and are feeling very inspired by all the people we have met and the work they do. We have a long list already of things we'd like to explore further and are verrry excited about being here...

Lebbus Woods style minerals...

no this is not wood it's Quartz (after amhydrite) apparently...

digital matter?

meteorites collection tour....


a vast collection of matter out of this world...
we held a piece of Mars!

first tours around the laboratory...revealing amazing stuff everywhere!