The latest issue of the online journal museum and society, “Constructing Nature Behind the Glass,” is available online:
museum and society
july 2008, volume 6 no. 2, Special issue: Constructing Nature Behind the Glass, edited by Samuel J. M.M. Alberti and Christopher Whitehead
Constructing nature behind the glass
Samuel J.M.M. Alberti
Repair work: surfacing the geographies of dead animals
Merle Patchett and Kate Foster
The matter and meaning of museum taxidermy
Rachel Poliquin
Nature dissected, or dissection naturalized? The case of John Hunter’s museum
Simon Chaplin
Rethinking the value of biological specimens: laboratories, museums and the Barcoding of Life Initiative
Rebecca Ellis
Book Reviews
Ken Arnold, Cabinets for the Curious: Looking Back at Early English Museums
Paula Findlen
Conal McCarthy, Exhibiting Maori: A History of Colonial Cultures of Display Curiosity and Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth century
Julia Adams
Perhaps Darwin would’ve enjoyed this mini-doc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7iQRFP_e90
Thanks for the links, Michael. This is an interesting journal, and free subscription too!