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<p>Our museum recently got hold of old taxidermy/mounted exhibition specimens of mostly birds and mammals. While they're not display of highest aesthetic quality, and probably won't be brought out for the public in a long time,
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they still hold many values, and will be added to our future online collections. Therefore, I am curious to hear from other museums on:</span> </p>
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<p><i>(1) </i><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px;"><i>Specimens tag/information included</i></span>:
What sorts of information do you normally put in with taxidermy, mounted exhibition specimens not on display. I know there are standard information on research specimens, but our exhibition ones were normally prepared from confiscated remains and dead zoo
animals then transferred to the museum, thus not much data were recovered. </p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>(2) Specimens imaging</i>: How to take good photo of them, and make them look good for putting on web? Since none of us are really skilled with image capturing and manipulation. Which angle do you normally take? What's resolution
are standard?</span><br>
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<p>We would also appreciate some examples from your museums, as more reference are always appreciated!</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I attached some photo of the specimens mentioned above currently in our repository. </span><br>
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<div class="PlainText"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,111,201); font-size:10pt; font-family:Constantia,"Hoefler Text",serif">Huong-Lien Tran
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<span style="font-size:8pt; font-family:Constantia,"Hoefler Text",serif">http://www.vnmn.ac.vn </span>
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