Beastly Love

What is beastly love, you ask?
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Taxidermy and Art
Beaty Biodiversity Museum

The Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia is a newly open research centre and museum focusing on all thing natural and all things naturally diverse.
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Ravishing Beasts Exhibition
THE BREATHLESS ZOO IS COMING!

My book The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing is due out in July. Check it out here: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-05372-1.html

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The Specola in Florence

DateWednesday, August 6, 2008 at 10:25AM

Part of the Museum of the University of Florence, the Specola Museum was opened to the public in 1775, and it is the oldest scientific museum in Europe. It holds the largest collection of anatomical waxworks in the world, manufactured between 1770 and 1850 and over 3,500,000 animals, of which only 5,000 are in view to the public.Check out the Specola's website here + 

Images are from Curious Expeditions' Flickr site [see here +].  Have I already pointed you towards their website?  You should go: www.curiousexpeditions.org



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