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Woodstock Dreams in the Hall of Bones

Two visitors to the Natural History Museum in London admire the huge skeleton in the main hall.

The Natural History Museum’s most famous skeleton used to be “Dippy,” a diplodocus that dominated that main hall for 112 years. In 2017, it was replaced with a blue whale skeleton (which is what you see here). Dippy wasn’t actually a real skeleton though; it was a composite cast made from plaster and steel. The irony? For over a century, visitors thought they were seeing an actual dinosaur when they were really looking at a rather elaborate replica.

#architecture #bandMerchandise #blueWhaleSkeleton #britishCulture #counterculture #denimJackets #familyVisit #festivalCulture #generationalConnection #glassCeiling #gothicArchitecture #heritageTourism #londonLandmarks #museumPhotography #musicHeritage #naturalHistoryMuseumLondon #photo #photography #streetPhotography #vintageAesthetic #woodstock

Woodstock Dreams in the Hall of Bones

Two visitors to the Natural History Museum in London admire the huge skeleton in the main hall.

The Natural History Museum’s most famous skeleton used to be “Dippy,” a diplodocus that dominated that main hall for 112 years. In 2017, it was replaced with a blue whale skeleton (which is what you see here). Dippy wasn’t actually a real skeleton though; it was a composite cast made from plaster and steel. The irony? For over a century, visitors thought they were seeing an actual dinosaur when they were really looking at a rather elaborate replica.

#architecture #bandMerchandise #blueWhaleSkeleton #britishCulture #counterculture #denimJackets #familyVisit #festivalCulture #generationalConnection #glassCeiling #gothicArchitecture #heritageTourism #londonLandmarks #museumPhotography #musicHeritage #naturalHistoryMuseumLondon #photo #photography #streetPhotography #vintageAesthetic #woodstock

Woodstock Dreams in the Hall of Bones

Two visitors to the Natural History Museum in London admire the huge skeleton in the main hall.

The Natural History Museum’s most famous skeleton used to be “Dippy,” a diplodocus that dominated that main hall for 112 years. In 2017, it was replaced with a blue whale skeleton (which is what you see here). Dippy wasn’t actually a real skeleton though; it was a composite cast made from plaster and steel. The irony? For over a century, visitors thought they were seeing an actual dinosaur when they were really looking at a rather elaborate replica.

#architecture #bandMerchandise #blueWhaleSkeleton #britishCulture #counterculture #denimJackets #familyVisit #festivalCulture #generationalConnection #glassCeiling #gothicArchitecture #heritageTourism #londonLandmarks #museumPhotography #musicHeritage #naturalHistoryMuseumLondon #photo #photography #streetPhotography #vintageAesthetic #woodstock

Woodstock Dreams in the Hall of Bones

Two visitors to the Natural History Museum in London admire the huge skeleton in the main hall.

The Natural History Museum’s most famous skeleton used to be “Dippy,” a diplodocus that dominated that main hall for 112 years. In 2017, it was replaced with a blue whale skeleton (which is what you see here). Dippy wasn’t actually a real skeleton though; it was a composite cast made from plaster and steel. The irony? For over a century, visitors thought they were seeing an actual dinosaur when they were really looking at a rather elaborate replica.

#architecture #bandMerchandise #blueWhaleSkeleton #britishCulture #counterculture #denimJackets #familyVisit #festivalCulture #generationalConnection #glassCeiling #gothicArchitecture #heritageTourism #londonLandmarks #museumPhotography #musicHeritage #naturalHistoryMuseumLondon #photo #photography #streetPhotography #vintageAesthetic #woodstock

Surreal! The red folders are #type specimens at #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon. [Type specimens are the very definition of a species and therefore really important]. The red shelf contains the NHM's collections of #Stelis #orchids from the region 23 (Tropical South America).
#HerbariumLife #CuratorLife

Surreal! The red folders are #type specimens at #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon. [Type specimens are the very definition of a species and therefore really important]. The red shelf contains the NHM's collections of #Stelis #orchids from the region 23 (Tropical South America).
#HerbariumLife #CuratorLife

Surreal! The red folders are #type specimens at #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon. [Type specimens are the very definition of a species and therefore really important]. The red shelf contains the NHM's collections of #Stelis #orchids from the region 23 (Tropical South America).
#HerbariumLife #CuratorLife

Surreal! The red folders are #type specimens at #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon. [Type specimens are the very definition of a species and therefore really important]. The red shelf contains the NHM's collections of #Stelis #orchids from the region 23 (Tropical South America).
#HerbariumLife #CuratorLife

Surreal! The red folders are #type specimens at #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon. [Type specimens are the very definition of a species and therefore really important]. The red shelf contains the NHM's collections of #Stelis #orchids from the region 23 (Tropical South America).
#HerbariumLife #CuratorLife

At the #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon, we are not only imaging our collections, we also do #georeferencing. Amazingly, the more we digitise, the more data we get, and we can even reconstruct travel routes.
E.g.; Oleg #Polunin (https://bionomia.net/Q266663) collected in the "Kolahoi valley", #Kashmir, in 8/1956.
He started his travel from Pahalgam in the south, via Liddarwat (now a camping ground) towards a "pass" on 14422 ft. altitude where Polunin collected several plants.

@FediFollows Currently, the #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon has a project to digitise all specimens of #wheat and it's relatives. E.g., we have collections from 1864 from a place called "Phèner Baghtché". This looks odd but if you consider that the collector might be French, then this sounds simply like "#Fenerbahçe". Yes, it's the same place where the famous #football club has it's name from, a suburb of #Istanbul, #Türkiye.

Thanks to @FediFollows I gained quite a number of new followers. Welcome!
Maybe this is a good opportunity to show what I am doing as a #herbarium #curator.
Curators are basically librarians for collectibles other than books. In my case, I take care of the plant collections of the #NaturalHistoryMuseumLondon.
Taking care means a lot of things. I digitise (database and image), repair, clean and update herbarium specimens.

Al igual que el Museo de Historia Natural chileno, el de Londres tiene una ballena en su hall principal.

#whale #naturalhistorymuseumlondon #london #england #photography :darktable: