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The life and death of Tamagotchi and the virtual pet

Discover how the 1990s craze for Tamagotchis became a flood of robotic and virtual pets, sending their owners on an emotional rollercoaster ride.

  • Interview

Inside the mind of Somewhere in Between’s curator, Laurie Britton Newell

The exhibition's curator shares her secrets.

  • Article

Homesick for planet Earth

Find out how homesick astronauts spend their free time, and how recreating home cooking from freeze-dried ingredients can cheer them all up.

  • Photo story

’No you’re not’ – a portrait of autistic women

In this sensitive series of portraits and interviews, photographer Rosie Barnes acknowledges the voices and experiences of autistic women.

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  • Place du Châtelet, Paris: a cart loaded with hay, a white carriage with two white horses ("Dame Blanche"), a working cart and a handcart pulled by a young boy are all gathered on the square. Lithograph by Ch. Motte, 1829, after V. Adam.
  • Lonicera periclymenum L. Caprifoliaceae. Honeysuckle Distribution: Europe. This shrubby, fragrant, white-flowered honeysuckle is named for Adam Lonitzer (Lonicerus) (1528–86). German botanist, physician and author of Naturalis historiae opus novum (1551, 1555) and the Kreuterbuch (1557)
  • The Key to unknowne knowledge. Or, a shop of five windowes ... Consisting of five necessarie treatises: namely, 1. The Judgement of urines. 2. Judiciall rules of physicke. 3. Questions of oyles. 4. Opinions for curing of harquebush-shot. 5. A discourse of humane nature.
  • The Key to unknowne knowledge. Or, a shop of five windowes ... Consisting of five necessarie treatises: namely, 1. The Judgement of urines. 2. Judiciall rules of physicke. 3. Questions of oyles. 4. Opinions for curing of harquebush-shot. 5. A discourse of humane nature.
  • Baby with congenital deformity of the right foot
  • A beggar woman with a gourd. Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1629.
  • A beggar woman with a gourd. Etching by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1629.
  • A couple caress within a bag full of water that is suspended against a collage of faces, labels and the lettering 'who', 'sex', 'love' and 'no'; representing an advertisement for safe sex helplines by Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Colour lithograph by Kevan Way, 1995.
  • Profiles of two human faces facing each other, separated by letters spelling the word AIDS. Colour screenprint by J. Rajlich, 1994.
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