[NHCOLL-L:4970] Pickled Exhibit

[Jean-Marc Gagnon]

Here is an interesting article that Chris Norris posted on Facebook.

 

I thought it would be of general interest to many on the List, but particularly those caring for fluid-preserved collections.

 

 

Vintage Exhibits on Show: Berlin Museum Opens Spectacular Display of Pickled Animals

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A spectacularly eerie exhibition of pickled animals opened to the public at Berlin's Natural History Museum on Tuesday. The collection contains fish, mammals, spiders and reptiles preserved in alcohol, some of them over 200 years old.

 

You can download the complete article over the Internet at the following

URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,717401,00.html <http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,717401,00.html> 

 

Jean-Marc

 

Jean-Marc Gagnon, Ph.D.

President of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (www.spnhc.org <http://www.spnhc.org/> ) 

Lead Organizer of the 2010 SPNHC & CBA-ABC Joint Conference (www.spnhc-cba2010.org <http://www.spnhc-cba2010.org/> ) 

 

Chief Collection Manager / Gestionnaire en chef des collections

Invertebrate Collections / Collections des invertébrés

Canadian Museum of Nature / Musée canadien de la nature

P.O. Box 3443, Stn "D" / C.P. 3443, Succ. D

Ottawa, ON Canada K1P 6P4

T: 613-364-4066 / F: 613-364-4027

E/C: jmgagnon at mus-nature.ca <mailto:jmgagnon at mus-nature.ca> 

http://www.nature.ca <http://www.nature.ca/> 

 

P Thanks for thinking of the environment before printing! /

           Merci de penser à l'environnement avant d'imprimer! 

 

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