
Waiting Room, Justine Cooper, 2005.
As part of
Seed's birthday celebration for Charles Darwin,
Carl Zimmer went behind the scenes at the American Natural History Museum in New York to look at the history of collecting science collections.
Justine Cooper's accompanying photographs capture some haunting vignettes of the museum behind the curtain.*
*I had the Wizard of Oz in mind when I wrote that, but now it reminds me of Charles Peale's self portrait that reveals his personal collection--
America's first museum--behind a red curtain:
The Artist in His Museum, Charles Willson Peale, 1822.

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