Exhibition Review: The Micrarium @ Grant Museum
The world of tiny creatures brought to life in a shrine full of slides.
The world of tiny creatures brought to life in a shrine full of slides.
The wonders of zoology get their own hashtags.
The wonderful, skeletal, taxidermical marvel that is the Grant Museum of Zoology is to shut up shop on 1 July for at least half a year. The cramped closet of anatomy is shifting from its current home on Gower Street to more roomy quarters. From …
Yes, it’s a penis bone. A walrus’ penis bone, no less. The very largest in the animal kingdom. We knew from the moment we stepped into the room that this just had to be Museum of the Month. As museums go, the Grant is something …
“Oh, the flesh-eating beetles are in there,” shrugs our guide, pointing to a locked door. This is the Darwin Centre, where a gruesome surprise lurks around every corner. The annexe to the Natural History Museum holds some 22 million biological specimens bottled up in jars …