Handsome or ugly – what do you reckon?  As a cult god worshipped by Ptolemaic and Roman Egyptians Serapis was revered. But for the conservation staff at the Museum, he’s a star of Ugly Object of the Month, a clever blog that checks in on museum collection items which, at first glance, might not be that visually appealing. Bits of pot, broken corners off things, fragments of material. It’s a reminder to us that museum collections are not all glamorous and shiny – and it’s by investigating and interpreting these special little gems in collections that we build up a bigger picture of a museum’s theme. By looking again at these objects, beautiful or ugly, we learn more and more and more.