taxidermy
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Context! The Natural History Museum in London has its own page on Atlas Obscura and I cannot for the life of me figure out why. There’s some odd stuff there – as I mentioned on one of the very posts I did on this here blog – but it’s one of the biggest museums of…
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As someone who runs a blog specifically about weird/offbeat attractions, I have to confess that I found Edinburgh a lot more… pedestrian than Glasgow. It’s still a great city, don’t get me wrong! I loved Edinburgh Zoo and the Harryhausen exhibition, but I found it a bit tricky to find anything in Edinburgh that wasn’t…
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Context! Mostly famous these days from a quote by someone else, David Livingstone was a Victorian Christian missionary who made several expeditions into Central Africa, recording the horrors of the slave trade there. He did help to pressure the British Empire into curtailing the Arab slavers in the region, and he was the first European…
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Context! The Hunterian Museum, part of the University of Glasgow, is the best University museum I’ve seen outside of Oxbridge. It’s a really beautiful building, free to enter, and has exhibits on basically everything. The Hunterian Collection is over two hundred years old, and has picked up some wild exhibits in its time. Some of…
