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Jack Ashby: The unnatural nature of natural history museums

This event has finished Took place on: Wednesday, 2nd May 2018

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Author and zoologist Jack Ashby will be talking about the unnatural nature of natural history museums.

Natural history museums are magical places. They inspire awe and wonder in the natural world and help us understand our place within the animal kingdom. Behind the scenes, many of them are also undertaking world-changing science with their collections. Their specimens help us explore incredible evolutionary stories.

But they are places for people, made by people. We might like to consider them logical places, centred on facts, but they can’t tell all the facts – there isn’t room. Similarly, they can’t show all the animals. And there are reasons behind what goes on display and what gets left in the storeroom.

The biases that can be detected in how people talk about animals, particularly in museums, is one of the themes of Jack Ashby’s new book, Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects. Museums are a product of their own history, and that of the societies they are embedded in. They are not apolitical, and they are not entirely scientific. As such, they don’t really represent reality.


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2018-05-02 2018-05-02 Europe/London Jack Ashby: The unnatural nature of natural history museums Author and zoologist Jack Ashby will be talking about the unnatural nature of natural history museums. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2018/05/02/jack-ashby-the-unnatural-nature-of-natural-history-museums-170506 The Old King's Head,47-49 Borough High Street,London,

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47-49 Borough High Street,
London,
SE1 1NA

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