{"id":30083,"date":"2015-10-16T11:04:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T00:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?p=30083"},"modified":"2019-04-16T13:31:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T03:31:19","slug":"natural-history-museum-misses-anthropocene-climate-education-opportunity-says-takvera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/natural-history-museum-misses-anthropocene-climate-education-opportunity-says-takvera\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural History Museum misses Anthropocene #climate education opportunity says @takvera"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLike many visitors and tourists to London I took the opportunity to visit the London Natural History Museum<\/a>. I visited this museum 19 years ago and spent a whole day there with my older step children when they were 11 and 9 years old.<\/p>\n

So I was keen to go back and share a new experience at the museum with my 15 year old daughter. Many interactive exhibits had changed, but many case exhibits looked pretty much exactly as I remembered them.<\/p>\n

I remember my visit to the Mammals room with the Blue Whale as the centre piece hanging from the ceiling. The blue whale was still there but surrounded by scaffolding being restored. I guess you expect some continual maintenaince in a museum, but I was a little disappointed.<\/p>\n

In another room there was a cabinet with taxidermied extinct species. Except that there were several exhibits missing in the extinct species display (more restoration work?) which was also a little disheartening. Don’t the Museum have multiple exhibits in storage they could move into display cabinets while items are pulled out for restoration?<\/p>\n

I found the display cases for our Australian masupials. And there I saw the taxidermied thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger. This species was driven to extinction in the last century. A unique predator marsupial that is no longer with us. Extinction really is forever. <\/p>\n

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found stuffed #thylacine<\/a> Europeans drove to #extinction<\/a> #London<\/a> Nat Hist museum. How many more with #climate<\/a> change? pic.twitter.com\/6TgApAWga2<\/a><\/p>\n

— John Englart EAM (@takvera) October 14, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n