There is a welcoming quietness as you step into the storeroom of the entomology section of the Natural History Museum in London. You instantly breathe in a familiar smell – old wooden drawers and preserving chemicals – and see endless rows of metal cabinets, punctuated by posters with brightly magnified metallic forms. Upstairs, there is [...]
The discovery… On October 29th, 1865, a young blue whale beaches in the Askim bay outside Göteborg. Olof Larsson, a local fisherman, finds it and struggles for two days alongside his brother-in-law to kill ‘this horrible beast’. They sell it to August Malm, curator at the Göteborg Museum of Natural History. Malm sees the opportunity [...]
I was in New York on the hunt for birds-of-paradise. While their natural habitat is over 9000 miles away in the rain forests of Papua New Guinea, I had it on good authority that I could find some particularly intriguing examples at famed Chelsea fashion emporium New York Vintage. NYV is, according to their website, [...]
The Cat was discovered many years ago by my friend, Andrew Sorrell, proprietor of Floral Hall Antiques in North London during one of his buying trips to the Paris Flea Market. When he phoned to say he had returned with something that might be of interest to me I headed straight round to his shop [...]
Childhood Memories of Taxidermy: Arthur, the Siberian Brown Bear, Haslemere Educational Museum, Surrey
Submitted by: Laxmi Wadher
Childhood Memories of Taxidermy: Arthur, the Siberian Brown Bear, Haslemere Educational Museum, Surrey In the galleries there was a bear. But the bear wasn’t a real bear but the skin was a real bear’s skin but they stuffed the bear. The animals up on the wall they were dead then the men take the [...]