Wollaton Hall was filmed as Batman's abode Wayne Manor in The Dark Knight Rises (2012). So, we were inspired to do something a bit different in our new gallery – an exhibit of superheroes and comic book characters inspired by animals and plants. There are lots!
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Boxes of pressed plants from our herbarium collection on their way to display in our new 'Curating Nature' gallery.
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Aye aye! Last week @Birdhousetaxidermy was in to do some restoration of specimens going on display in our new gallery, including this aye-aye skeleton.
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The idea of juxtaposing 'storage' with 'display' came from an inspiring visit to the Koenig Museum in Bonn 12 years ago. They had (still have?) a section just like this and I'd never seen anything like it before. It impressed and stuck with me. Now I've copied it!
There will be similar sections like this for wet, osteological, egg, plant, and invertebrate collections in a new gallery at Wollaton Hall #NottNatHist Museum.
The displays in our new 'Curating Nature' gallery are gradually taking shape. This section is about geological collections. For each type of collection in this gallery there will be a 'behind the scenes' section to represent storage with objects en mass, juxtaposed with a 'display' section to interpret the collection and highlight key objects and stories.
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I've been completely preoccupied this year with a new gallery at the Nottingham Natural History Museum, #WollatonHall.
The new gallery is called 'Curating Nature' and will explore the full gamut of natural history collections including spirit specimens, osteological material, dried and pinned invertebrates, Blaschka glass models, herbarium specimens, geological material, and taxidermy... all to answer the most-asked question by visitors to the museum: is it real?
A chimpanzee skeleton on display in our upcoming new gallery, visible behind the antler tines of a giant Irish deer.
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Museum specimens are now being installed in our upcoming permanent 'Curating Nature' gallery.
The new displays will explore the full gamut of natural history collections and the different ways they are preserved.
Here are some historical herbarium sheets collected by Darwin's best friend Joseph Hooker, and some Blaschka glass models of jelly fish (bottom left).
Our technicians had a whale of a time today moving skeletons into Wollaton Hall for our new 'Curating Nature' gallery. I took this photo on porpoise.
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Yesterday we were visited by PhD student Archie Henderson from the University of Reading who was collecting data from several of our fossil vertebrates including this ichthyosaur.
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