National Dinosaur Museum Blog

Hello!   How has everyone’s week been? We’ve been busy busy busy here at the museum! We got approximately 50 million boxes of new stock in on Thursday afternoon, so we’re furiously getting that organised and out onto the shop floor!   This week, I’d like to talk about August’s birthstone. Technically (according to Google), August has three birthstones; peridot, spinel and sardonyx, but for today I’ll only be talking about peridot (for no reason other than it’s the stone I usually associate with August). Now, I would like to preface this with a comment about how, as a person with...