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Halloween at 香港六合彩 museums
4th October 2018
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Something strange is happening at 香港六合彩 museums this Halloween鈥μ
Take your pick of not one, but two eerie evening events. Drinks included and dressing up strongly encouraged!
Click here for a monstrous talk听at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology听
Click here for a ghoulish late opening at the Grant Museum of Zoology
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Fluff it Up: Make Taxidermy Great Again
21st Jul 2017
We've just this week launched a project called 鈥楩luff it Up: Make Taxidermy Great Again鈥. We're taking some of our animals who need a bit of TLC out of the displays. While they're having a bit of love, we've made sure there's still things to look at by replacing them with some other kinds of stuffed animals, to highlight the important role of taxidermy conservation. [[{"fid":"4791","view_mode":"large","fields":{"format":"large","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Stuffed toy in Grant Museum","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"large","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Stuffed toy in Grant Museum","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"height":"1536","width":"2048","class":"media-element file-large"}}]]Taxidermy is a scientific art, requiring knowledge of anatomy and morphology, craftsmanship and accuracy to arrange, preserve and restore real animal skin over pre-made forms of the animal鈥檚 shape. [[{"fid":"4807","view_mode":"medium","fields":{"format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Lucie Mascord","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Lucie Mascord cleaning a platypus specimen","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"%3Cp%3E%3Cem%3ELucie%20Mascord%20cleaning%20a%20platypus%20specimen%3C%2Fem%3E%3C%2Fp%3E","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Lucie Mascord","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Lucie Mascord cleaning a platypus specimen","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"%3Cp%3E%3Cem%3ELucie%20Mascord%20cleaning%20a%20platypus%20specimen%3C%2Fem%3E%3C%2Fp%3E","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"height":"704","width":"500","class":"media-element file-medium"}}]]Many of our specimens at the Grant Museum are over a hundred years old, and they're going to need some specialist attention because of what time does to them. As Jack Ashby, Manager of the Grant Museum of Zoology explains 鈥淕iven the rarity of the species in the wild, as well as the historic value of nineteenth and early twentieth century taxidermy, they would essentially be impossible to replace. This project will allow us to protect our incredible specimens for the long-term future.鈥濃淗istorically, taxidermy has not always been very accurate 鈥 loose animal skins would be sent from collectors around the globe, and then mounted as taxidermy when they arrived in the UK 鈥 sometimes by people who had never actually seen the living creature. This can lead to animals being positioned in impossible poses, or being overstuffed鈥 added Jack.The museum has around 75 examples of taxidermy, ranging in size from a chimpanzee to a pink fairy armadillo, including platypuses, koalas, turtles and pangolins. Some of the specimens to be treated include a chimpanzee from 1913 that has cracks along its face, a koala that is splitting to reveal wood shavings beneath the skin, and an inflated pufferfish that has lost its tail. However, not all of them will be repaired. 鈥淥ur Australian echidna 鈥 a spiny relative of the platypus 鈥 has feet which point in the wrong direction and consequently, rips across the ankles. Echidnas were so unfamiliar to people in London that the taxidermist didn鈥檛 realise that their feet should point backwards. We won鈥檛 be correcting this mistake as it forms invaluable evidence of the ways these animals were historically understood,鈥 said Jack. [[{"fid":"4815","view_mode":"medium","fields":{"format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Echidna","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Echidna","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"height":"477","width":"591","class":"media-element file-medium"}}]][[{"fid":"4799","view_mode":"medium","fields":{"format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Twitter speculation","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"%3Cp%3E%3Cem%3ETwitter%20users%20respond%20to%20the%20Grant%20Museum%26%2339%3Bs%20Echidna%20specimen.%3C%2Fem%3E%3C%2Fp%3E","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Twitter speculation","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"%3Cp%3E%3Cem%3ETwitter%20users%20respond%20to%20the%20Grant%20Museum%26%2339%3Bs%20Echidna%20specimen.%3C%2Fem%3E%3C%2Fp%3E","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"height":"330","width":"591","class":"media-element file-medium"}}]]鈥楩luff It Up: Make Taxidermy Great Again鈥 is running until September, while the toys will replace the taxidermy in the displays.The Grant Museum of Zoology is open from 1鈥5pm Monday to Saturday. Visitors of the museum will have an opportunity to see conservation expert, Lucie Mascord, carrying out treatments on the specimens from the 12 -15 June. Admission is free and there is no need to book. 鈥淭axidermy in museums plays an important role in engaging people with the natural world and its incredible biodiversity. We hope that the opportunity for people to see conservation first hand will inspire our visitors.鈥 said Jack.
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