A Curated Miscellaneum

Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris (Photo: Courtesy of Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature)

Sunken Warship Vasa- Stockholm, Sweden: November 2015.  17th Flagship on the Swedish Fleet, Sunk in 1628 during the maiden voyage.  Recovered in 1961 and preserved.

Articulated skeletons at Manchester University.

#london #igerslondon #naturalhistory #naturalhistorymuseum #architecture (at Natural History Museum, London)

The bone room

Galerie de Paléontologie by kygp on Flickr.

Kauno Tado Ivanausko Zoologijos Muziejus, Kaunas 2015

Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum, NYC.

(Via kntau79 on Instagram)

‘In both its makings and its meanings…, the taxidermic animal - ‘this animal-thing’ - is almost the epitome of the kind of unstable object that is so highly regarded in contemporary art. in significant part, this is intimately tied to the thing’s having-been-a-living-being (or, at least, to some of its materials having recognizably been part of such a being). The stubborn liveliness and life of the dead animal, the animal-thing in the museum, is not easily suppressed. As [Rachel] Poliquin puts it: ‘this static thing in a very real sense is an animal still: the eyes may be glass, but the animal stares back’.’

- Steve Baker, ‘Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead’, in Garry Marvin and Susan McHugh, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies, London: Routledge, 2014, pp.302-3.

Specimen: Lion taxidermy Date: No note in files. Found: Natural History Museum - London, England

Notes: Photograph was taken on my trip to London in 2011.

Sculpture Gallery.   Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum.  Copenhagen Denmark.

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Nautilus copo 1592 Prata dourada, escudo do nautilus, vidro e esmalte, 27 centímetros de altura, diâmetro de 10 centímetros Gemeente Musea, Delft.

Musée Zoologique de Strasbourg-mars 2015

“La Taxidermie, l'art de donner l'apparence du vivant aux morts"

(Photographie numérique- retouche photoshop)

untitled by OMS-B on Flickr.