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New Gallery Of Nature Images Opens At The Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum’s collections don’t stop at animal parts. They also own an extensive collection of paintings, photographs and other imagery related to the natural world. Half a million pieces of work, in fact. A new exhibition that shows off the best of these holdings has just opened.

The permanent gallery, known as Images of Nature, includes prints, watercolours, paintings and even confocal micrographs, many never seen by the public before. The images are not just decorative. Most have contributed to scientific understanding, such as a dodo painting used by Richard Owen to classify the species and an X-ray of a mummified falcon. Even a 3-D scan of a shark’s head. You can get a taster of the pictures here.

Speaking of Nature and Images, Nature Publishing Group has its own Flickr group – mostly filled with embarrassing photos of members of staff. Take a look around.

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    Laura Wheeler said:

     The exhibition is apparently amazing, have a look at the this Guardian Link with more images from the exhibition.  Image five, an X-Ray of the Goliath Beetle is fascinating!

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