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  • Short film

Audrey’s conservator

In this short film, conservator Stefania Signorello explains how she approached the unique challenge of preserving Audrey’s scrapbooks as she created them.

  • Article

The Martians are coming

For over a hundred years, antagonistic alien invaders have been a popular focus for the imagined end of the world. But the destructive consequences of human behaviour is far more frightening.

  • Article

Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines

From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.

  • Article

Intertwined with air

Siwakorn Odochao details his people’s way of perceiving trees and humans as intimately connected, and draws on the air as the element that weaves between them. Through the co-dependency of humans and trees to prepare the air for each other, he elaborates on the relationship between air, health and environment.

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  • Insects: sixteen unlabelled anatomical segments. Etching, ca. 1798.
  • Insects: sixteen unlabelled anatomical segments. Etching, ca. 1798.
  • Microscopy: diagrams illustrating insects and parts of insects. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Microscopy: diagrams illustrating insects and parts of insects. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Microscopy: diagrams illustrating insects and parts of insects. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Microscopy: diagrams illustrating insects and parts of insects. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Microscopy: diagrams illustrating insects and parts of insects. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Anatomy of insects.
  • External forms of insects
  • Insects: classified varieties and stages of development, including larvae, beetles and butterflies. Coloured lithograph, 1875 (?).
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Insect Taxidermy

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