The new Royal Courts of Justice in London, opened in 1882 and photographed here between 1897 and 1899.
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Architectural models are an effective way of showing the public what new major buildings will look like.
The Gallery of Ecological Art (formerly China gallery) at the British Museum of Decolonised Nature.
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How museums can reimagine themselves in the context of the climate crisis.
Institutions such as the Natural History Museum in London are preparing to open their doors to the public once again.
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Cultural institutions are puzzling out to to make their buildings exciting and safe at the same time.
Ready to spatially manipulate 3D bat skulls from the comfort of your own computer?
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Museums’ collections are a priceless resource for scientists, but they’re not easy to access. Digitizing specimens – like the 700 bat skulls the author studied – is a way to let everyone in.
With a lot not on display, museums may not even know all that’s in their vast holdings.
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A tiny percentage of museums’ natural history holdings are on display. Very little of these vast archives is digitized and available online. But museums are working to change that.
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Museums are not apolitical, and they are not entirely scientific. As such, they don’t really represent reality.
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Dogs, rats, cats, cows, chickens and mice have also changed the world.
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The Natural History Museum’s ‘Dippy’ the diplodocus skeleton is about to be become a giant 3D jigsaw.