Newcastle upon Tyne: On the shelf with heavy grooved beak,the only known specimen of a juvenile remarkable aukThere’s a smell of cardboard and chemicals in the strip lighted corridors of the white painted basement. Paintings swaddled in Bubble Wrap lean against wooden crates, warm air blows from ducts and a complex network of grey pipes runs beneath the ceiling.
We are in the internal organs of this building, or in the collection stores of the remarkable North Museum. Half a million objects are protected in these temperature controlled rooms: insects,shells, eggs, and herbarium specimens,stuffed birds, skulls and bones.
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Source: theguardian.com