Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
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Title: Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Sales Rank: 1001798 in Books
Author: Richard Fortey
Publisher: HarperPress, 2008-01-07, Hardcover, 352 pages, ISBN: 0007209886
Package Dimensions: 9.29 x 6.14 x 1.42 inches, 1.68 pounds
Customer Reviews
- Reflections on the past, present and future state of nature in the human world
- London's Natural History Museum, a place of many treasures, offers many surprises - and natural scientist Richard Fortey provides tour of the museum unlocking not only its contents, but a lively history of the discipline itself. Chapters follow explorers, scientists, collection methods and categorization challenges, offering a fine blend of biography, natural science and museum collecting history, and… More reviews
- Uneven - Some good parts but it overstays its welcome
- This is a book I really wanted to like - I've always enjoyed museums and science and an inside look at one of the world's great museums sounded promising. Richard Fortey spent his entire adult life working at the British Natural History Museum and he has acquired a vast amount of anecdotes, history and experiences.
The book is a mix of museum history, science… More reviews
- The Museum, the Scientists and their Specimens
- About a month ago, (September 2008) I had a chance to hear Richard Fortey himself lecturing about this book. The lecture, very fittingly, was happening in a natural history museum. As his lecture unfolded, I found myself with many of the most interesting characters that have ever contributed to natural history, both famous and obscure. I also learned about what goes… More reviews
- Night at the museum with a personal tour guide
- Behind-the-scenes look at London's Natural History Museum is an interesting peak at the "coalface"--Fortey's term for the daily work occurring beyond and below the public galleries--of museum science. Fortey describes the main work of the Museum, and its sister institutions in other countries, as systematic taxonomy--the attempt to exhaustively categorize and collect reference examples of each species of plant, animal,… More reviews
- Museums and Their Back Rooms
- If you like visiting museums and you've ever wondered what goes on behind the displays and doors marked 'Employees Only', this is the book for you! It gives the reader a fascinating insight into how museums collect, exhibit, and store items, many of which never hit the public eye. The book is well worth reading. The insight… More reviews
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