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belovedapollo · 16 days

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from when I went and visited the Zoological Museum in Hamburg 🪲 reblog is ok, don’t repost/use

#my photos #museum #nature museum #zoology #bugs #butterfly #biology #stemblr #stem academia #science museum #stem aesthetic #museum photography #museum display #museum collections #museum education #bugblr #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic

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valentines-wolf · 1 year

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Close ups from a museum

#some of these were invisible to the naked eye so i used my phones camera as a magnifying glass #nature #biology #sea life #nature museum #naturalist #coral #shells #marine life #marine biology

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sixteenseveredhands · 1 year

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2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia (c.400-300 BCE): crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact

This artifact was sealed within the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia, where a unique microclimate enabled it to be preserved. The permafrost ice lense formation that runs below the barrows provided an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter; these conditions produced a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows themselves, thereby aiding in the preservation of the artifacts inside.

This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk. These artifacts are attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.

Currently housed at the Hermitage Museum.

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bughideout · 9 months

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42 euros spent and i dont regret a single thing

#berlin #natural history #museum #nature museum #dinosaurs #i love dinosaurs

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musiclovingmoth · 2 months

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and when i say "specimens" i don't mean taxidermied mounts made to look lifelike for exhibit, i'm talking about the thousands to millions of specimens lying in drawers and shelves like this:

asking because i didn't know this until i was in high school. reblogs greatly appreciated, i want to reach as far out of science nerd tumblr as possible!

#science #biology #paleontology #botany #entomology #animals #birds #mammals #herpetology #microbiology #nature #museum #dark academia #vulture culture #throwing those last two in for good measure...#lab notebook

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neptunesdesire · 7 months

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Details: The Backwater, Charles William Wyllie

#painting detail #paintings #oil painting #art history blog #art detail #museums #art #oil on canvas #art history #detail #landscape #nature #19th century art #classical art #forest #impressionism

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beardless-bearded-vulture · 27 days

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They had a fun corner in the natural history museum in Bern about the taxidermy process, and they showed the effect the eyes have on how realistic or uh. disturbing. a mount is

The first fox had all black eyes. Not super realistic for those who know red foxes usually have orange or greenish eyes, but still pretty cute

The second one had normal fox eyes. I think they could've gone with a size or two smaller, but still. Regular orange eyes with a vertical pupil as it should be. But then. Oh. Oh no.

Human eyes 👁👁

#vulture culture #taxidermy #fox.#natural history museum bern #museum #my post

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melaninadorned · 1 year

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Museum Meet up | Melanin Adorned

#black women #melanin poppin #black tumblr #black girl moodboard #black girls #melanin #black women femininity #black women luxury #soft life #natural hair #museum

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amnhnyc · 1 month

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We’re celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day in a big way, with one of the largest known deer: the Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus)! It was originally discovered in bog deposits in Ireland. This megafauna could weigh up to 1,500 pounds (680 kg) and its antlers could reach an incredible 13-ft- (4-m-) spread. Once ranging from western Europe to China, this animal died out some 10,000 years ago. However, at least one population, living in Russia’s Ural Mountains, managed to survive until about 7,770 years ago, long after the end of the Pleistocene.

See the Irish Elk up close in the Museum’s Hall of Advanced Mammals! We’re open daily from 10 am-5:30 pm. Plan your visit.

Photo: © AMNH

#science #amnh #museum #fossil #natural history #nature #paleontology #megafauna #did you know #fact of the day #fun fact #saint patricks day #st patricks day #luck of the irish #deer #mammals

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faithandarisadventures · 1 year

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Oak Mountain Interpretive Center Oak Mountain State Park Pelham, Alabama November 5, 2022

#alabama #birmingham alabama #oak mountain state park #state park #interpretive center #museums #nature museum #snapping turtle #our adventures

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batnbreakfast · 1 year

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Today I visited one of the most interesting and peculiar homes I’ve ever had the chance to see.

Imagine this being your living/dining room:

And when you give guests a tour of the rest of the house, it’s like this:

Talk about 60 years of special interest! The collector, Klaas Nanninga, does his own taxidermy, although he’s more specialised in creating displays these days. His house does not have fixed opening times, so you practically call him when in Groningen and ask if he’s around. Luckily for me he was!

#natuurmuseum groningen #klaas nanninga #this was soooooo impressive #vleermuis vakantie #it’s a bat’s life #natural history #museums #taxidermy

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belovedapollo · 8 months

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Solo museum date ! because it is important to take yourself out on some quality time with yourself 🫧 reblog ok, don’t repost

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guccigarantine · 5 months

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if you have lmk what was being shown

#I frequently cry in art museums #back in june I was at a van gogh exhibit and saw the paint ‘first steps’ in person for the first time #and had myself a cry #i saw a bunch of keith haring’s work and cried at the untitled paintings #it’s good to cry in public sometimes #I was going to have this be exclusively about art museums but I’ve also cried in a natural history museum before

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dread-doughnuts · 5 months

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Introducing The Skull Index

Hi all! Now that we are in the early launch phase of the project I’m really excited to share the Skull Index! This is a project a team of friends (led by @birbbones ) have been working on over the last several months; our goal is to provide a high quality free to use anatomy resource. This is meant to be used by anyone from scientists to artists to students. Feel free to check out the website, and if you’d like to stay up to date on the project join our Discord!

The Discord is 18+ for privacy and safety. We hope to see it become a hub for people who are either interested in or currently work in museums, education, and the natural sciences. It is of course open to anyone interested in and enthusiastic about the topic as well. And if you’re interested in collaborating on the project as a please feel free to contact us!

The website is a work in progress though we have a goal of completing it Q1 of 2024. Over 200 mammal species have been logged so far!

#vulture culture #natural history #museum specimens #vc #the skull index

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markscherz · 1 month

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Natural history museums hold innumerable misidentified specimens on their shelves. These specimens make their way into databases like GBIF, and muddy data that is used in global-scale analyses and other research drawing on such records. Careful verification of all specimens in a collection holding tens to hundreds of thousands of specimens would be a Herculean task that could take a dozen experts a decade. So, we often rely on spot checks.

Whilst searching our constrictor collection to see if we have any albino snakes (we don’t seem to), I came across this snake that had been identified as a Boa constrictor. It is in fact Malayopython reticulatus, a reticulated python. A quick new label and an update in our database, and I was able to move it over to the right shelf. Now it won’t muddy the waters further, and is able to be referred to by anyone interested in examining a retic.

How many more such cases are haunting our shelves of over 14 million objects? And that’s just the Natural History Museum of Denmark; there are billions of objects in similar collections globally. This is quite literally an astronomically huge problem.

#snake #animals #museum #natural history museum #natural history #NHMD #ZMUC #So many people on FB have just commented on the picture without reading the caption #it is quite funny #but also I realised this was in the wrong place by a part of the body from several metres away #not exactly sure how this error got made #but ultimately it doesn’t matter anymore

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peacefulandcozy · 8 months

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Instagram credit: co.nfused

#edinburgh #scotland #england #london #bath #uk #united kingdom #germany #bremen #natural history museum #dark academia #dark academic aesthetic #rainy city #beautiful architecture #beautiful places #cambridge

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