When Mimmoths Roamed The Earth
The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of the human or natural world.
- Richard Fortey, Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
NPR has been working on a series of stories about museums, but it's always good to be prodded out of my frame of reference in understanding how and what the British Museum is comprised of. Mr. Fortey does not skimp on the science. Dry Storeroom No. 1 makes for an interesting contrast to Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads as well, though both are reasonably dense reading.
And then there are days when we just want to marvel at weird bones, no intellectual stimulation required.
Build Your Own Tinysaur & Build Your Own Wooly Tiny (Mammoth) from Kelley Farrell
- Richard Fortey, Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
NPR has been working on a series of stories about museums, but it's always good to be prodded out of my frame of reference in understanding how and what the British Museum is comprised of. Mr. Fortey does not skimp on the science. Dry Storeroom No. 1 makes for an interesting contrast to Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads as well, though both are reasonably dense reading.
And then there are days when we just want to marvel at weird bones, no intellectual stimulation required.
Build Your Own Tinysaur & Build Your Own Wooly Tiny (Mammoth) from Kelley Farrell