In the penultimate post in our series showing you how to date your old family photographs using physical clues, Colin Harding offers some tips on how to identify cabinet cards.
Siegfried's Mechanical Music Cabinet Museum has the largest and most beautiful collection of mechanical music boxes. You can see this in Rudesheim on the Rhine.
Inside the bowels of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC you'll find something amazing. Classified, labelled, and impeccably
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Photographer Chip Clark has worked at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for 37 years and photographs its archives and archivists
In the penultimate post in our series showing you how to date your old family photographs using physical clues, Colin Harding offers some tips on how to identify cabinet cards.
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Looking for a unique outing in Amsterdam? Consider a visit to KattenKabinet cat museum. In this post, we share everything you need to know about visiting!
A wonderful new book to own and/or gift on the celebrated Paris destination of Deyrolle where art meets nature and science.
Hieronymus Francken the Younger Het Kabinet van de Kunstliefhebber (Cabinet of the Art Lover?) France (c. 1590s) Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium-Old Masters Museum images via supernaut.info
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The secret world of biological museum samples.
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Step inside the Paris cabinet of curiosities that has a cult following among aesthetes
Director Kirk Johnson explains what goes on behind the scenes at the world’s largest natural history museum
This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.
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Le più avvincenti Wunderkammer d’Europa nel volume fotografico Cabinet of curiosities di Massimo Listri
The collection obsession of Early Modern Europe, that saw people stocking cabinets of curiosities ( 'wund...
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The artist Viktor Wynd is a collector with no apparent filter – taxidermy, human remains, giant beans and McDonald’s Happy Meal toys all form part of his collection
A wonderful new book to own and/or gift on the celebrated Paris destination of Deyrolle where art meets nature and science.
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The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. The lushly white-coated Saki, an arboreal monkey from the Brazilian rainforests. The olinguito, a native of the Andes, which looks part mongoose, part teddy bear. These fantastic species are all new to science--at least newly named and identified; but they weren't discovered in the wild, instead, they were unearthed in the drawers and cavernous basements of natural history museums. As Christopher Kemp reveals in The Lost Species, hiding in the cabinets and storage units of natural history museums is a treasure trove of discovery waiting to happen. With Kemp as our guide, we go spelunking into museum basements, dig through specimen trays, and inspect the drawers and jars of collections, scientific detectives on the hunt for new species. We discover king crabs from 1906, unidentified tarantulas, mislabeled Himalayan landsnails, an unknown rove beetle originally collected by Darwin, and an overlooked squeaker frog, among other curiosities. In each case, these specimens sat quietly for decades--sometimes longer than a century--within the collections of museums, before sharp-eyed scientists understood they were new. Each year, scientists continue to encounter new species in museum collections--a stark reminder that we have named only a fraction of the world's biodiversity. Sadly, some specimens have waited so long to be named that they are gone from the wild before they were identified, victims of climate change and habitat loss. As Kemp shows, these stories showcase the enduring importance of these very collections. The Lost Species vividly tells these stories of discovery--from the latest information on each creature to the people who collected them and the scientists who finally realized what they had unearthed--and will inspire many a museumgoer to want to peek behind the closed doors and rummage through the archives.
Inside the bowels of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC you'll find something amazing. Classified, labelled, and impeccably