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Gallery Oldham Natural History collection
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Adult Arts and Craft courses and workshops. Kids & Families. Donating to the Gallery. Your are in: Home. Oldham has amazing collections of natural history specimens comprising plants, animals and geology. These specimens originate not just from the area around Oldham but also from much further afield. Many of the collections are associated with the membership of the Oldham Microscopical and Natural History Society and Field Club which was founded in 1864 and other with local naturalists and collectors.
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Unrealised Proposal for Cadavre Piece, 1970 | New Light on Old Bones
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New Light on Old Bones. Honesty and illusion in museums. Destruction and preservation in museums →. September 5, 2011 · 9:00 am. Unrealised Proposal for Cadavre Piece, 1970. Myna Trustram writes…. David’s post about the display of dead bodies. 8211; whether animal or human – put me immediately in mind of a possible future exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery where a dead human body will be displayed. Honesty and illusion in museums. Destruction and preservation in museums →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Living Worlds | New Light on Old Bones
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New Light on Old Bones. Peace, Love, and Understanding. Honesty and illusion in museums →. August 22, 2011 · 9:00 am. Guest blogger James writes…. I am on work experience from school and was asked to do a blog on the new exhibition in the Manchester Museum,. After having a look round for the first time. Seemed empty and a bit dull whereas some displays like the. Emed very full. I also thought that some of the titles seemed a bit abstract and didn’t make much sense, such as the. The skull of a horse that ...
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Looking Through a Lens HLF project | Preserving and presenting the past through digitisation | Page 2
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Looking Through a Lens HLF project. Preserving and presenting the past through digitisation. The orchid collection at the Royal Botanical Gardens Edinburgh. March 19, 2015. March 19, 2015. Plants are classified according to flowers, orchids have three sepals and three petals, one petal is highly modified. Flower structural variations have co-evolved with pollinators. Some species of orchids can also reproduce asexually by producing plantlets, buddings from the stem which can be repotted. There are laws e...
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The artefactual character of a zoological specimen with a geological name | New Light on Old Bones
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New Light on Old Bones. New Light on Old Bones Artist Research Project. A day out with the Yardleys →. June 17, 2010 · 7:41 pm. The artefactual character of a zoological specimen with a geological name. This project is about the different meanings and uses of ostensibly scientific specimens. So I was delighted to find out about a taxidermy mount of a greyhound called ‘Bed of Stone’ now on display in Blackburn. Bed of Stone (photograph by Mark Steadman, courtesy of Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery). One o...
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Honesty and illusion in museums | New Light on Old Bones
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New Light on Old Bones. Unrealised Proposal for Cadavre Piece, 1970 →. August 29, 2011 · 9:00 am. Honesty and illusion in museums. Twitter is brilliant for finding out about really interesting stuff you may otherwise have missed. In the last couple of weeks, to really interesting examples of museum NS displays have been brought to my attention. The first, from Elee Kirk. The Opposite of Taxidermy. They might well do, but it would be with a very different tone. It would be in grim certainty of the ans...
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About | New Light on Old Bones
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New Light on Old Bones. New Light on Old Bones (NLOB) is an innovative, multi-disciplinary research project looking at the cultural, social, and historical context of natural science collections in two venues in North West England; Blackburn Museum, and Rossendale Museum. The lead researcher is Mark Steadman, and the project board consists of Dr Samuel Alberti of The Manchester Museum, and David Craven and Dr Myna Trustram from Renaissance North West. 10 responses to “. June 12, 2010 at 11:56 am. Having ...
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Destruction and preservation in museums | New Light on Old Bones
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New Light on Old Bones. Unrealised Proposal for Cadavre Piece, 1970. September 12, 2011 · 9:00 am. Destruction and preservation in museums. Myna Trustram writes…. To further pick up on David’s post, ‘Honesty and illusion in museums’: I think that one of the things we do to shelter ourselves from the reality of death is to run museums. Unrealised Proposal for Cadavre Piece, 1970. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Destruction and pr...
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David Craven | New Light on Old Bones
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New Light on Old Bones. Author Archives: David Craven. Collections Development Officer: Natural Sciences for Renaissance North West. Part of the New Light on Old Bones project board. September 12, 2011 · 9:00 am. Destruction and preservation in museums. Myna Trustram writes…. To further pick up on David’s post, ‘Honesty and illusion in museums’: I think that one of the things we do to shelter ourselves from the reality of death is to run museums. September 5, 2011 · 9:00 am. Myna Trustram writes…. Those ...
