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A behind-the-scenes tour through the world''s greatest natural history museums, revealing how their hidden secrets can help us in the fight against climate change

Zoologist Jack Ashby spends his life working in Britain''s natural history museums, and in Nature''s Memory he guides us through a series of extraordinary collections, from marvellous mounted whale skeletons and impossibly tiny insect cabinets to buried treasures in vast museum storehouses.

But look more closely at these displays: all is not as it seems. While most exhibits succeed in communicating feelings of wonder and awe - a vital function when less people than ever before have access to the outdoors - Ashby argues that the version of nature natural history museums present does not always reflect reality, with specimens revealing more about the biases of curators than they do about the species they represent. Likewise, the ways in which museums have traditionally told the story of their own

Natures Memory

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 4/24/2025
      ISBN-13 9780241656884
      978-0241656884
      ISBN-10 0241656885
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      Non Fiction Science & Nature Zoology and animal sciences

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A behind-the-scenes tour through the world''s greatest natural history museums, revealing how their hidden secrets can help us in the fight against climate change

      Zoologist Jack Ashby spends his life working in Britain''s natural history museums, and in Nature''s Memory he guides us through a series of extraordinary collections, from marvellous mounted whale skeletons and impossibly tiny insect cabinets to buried treasures in vast museum storehouses.

      But look more closely at these displays: all is not as it seems. While most exhibits succeed in communicating feelings of wonder and awe - a vital function when less people than ever before have access to the outdoors - Ashby argues that the version of nature natural history museums present does not always reflect reality, with specimens revealing more about the biases of curators than they do about the species they represent. Likewise, the ways in which museums have traditionally told the story of their own

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