Apatosaurus and Camarasaurus at the Peabody Museum of Natural History. Photo by the author.
Thanks to the Diplodocus post being featured on Freshly Pressed, the number of people following this blog has increased fourfold in 24 hours. Welcome, everyone, and thanks for your interest! I’ve been using this blog to explore the world of mounted fossil skeletons in museums. These exhibits fascinate me because they are effectively installation art in the service of science, and what’s more, many have taken on a second life as cultural artifacts over the course of their decades on display.
Here is a sampling of key posts that have been reasonably popular…or which I am not yet completely embarrassed by:
Museums and the Triceratops Posture Problem – Parts One and Two
Displaying the Tyrant King – Parts One, Two, and Three
History of Fossil Displays at the Smithsonian
The Calvert Marine Museum’s Big Foam Shark
Juan Bautista Bru and the First Fossil Mount
First Full-Sized Dinosaurs: From Crystal Palace to Hadrosaurus
EXTINCT MONSTERS 