How do you feel looking at this board of beetles? Is there an urge to organise, or do you like the visual variety? 🪲🐞 Natural History Museum scientists faced the same conundrum in 1983 when entomologist Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe sold us his whopping collection of 42,000 specimens. Usually scientists would split up arrangements like this, sorting these beetles - an array of different species of weevil - by their different classifications to aid their scientific study. But in this case, they decided the display - with its incredible diversity of sizes, shapes and colours - was beautiful in its own right and should be kept as it is. 🎨 Would you make the same decision? Is there a place for art in science? Let us know what you think ⬇️
There is always a place for art in science - and vice versa! Art and science are complimentary fields in my opinion and visuals like this make the piece rather unique!😄
I love the diversity of beetles 🪲 and also the delightful palette of colours used for the individual name plates. 🩵💚🩷🧡
Little me geeked out when I saw this display!
I absolutely adore viewing the diversity of different species like this. So much that i did my whole project at university on the taxonomy of nature ❤️🤓
Leave as is! It draws your eyes into different areas and makes your choice to focus on one deliberate.
If they were my beetles, I’d organise them by what looks prettiest. If I was organising them for my client, it would have to be done taxonomically!
I think this looks fantastic! I'm glad it was kept as is!
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4dI thought that was a tea towel and wondered I could get one from!