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• Rational Order. Carl von Linné (1707-1778) 

  Endersby, Jim; Philp, Jude

  Published 2008

  In 2007 the Macleay Museum celebrated Linnaeus’s 300th year with the exhibition "Rational Order". The exhibition included over five hundred animals from the Macleay collections. We only selected animals that had been ...

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• Crossroads: Ancient Cyprus 

  Barker, Craig

  Published 2023-03-07

  Cyprus is an island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea whose legacy is of a significance far beyond its physical size, because of its geography and geology. Located between Asia, Europe and Africa, it is at the very nexus ...

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• Mediterranean Identities: Across the wine-dark sea 

  Richards, Candace

  Published 2023-02-21

  Mediterranean Identities: Across the Wine-Dark Sea thematically explores the material culture of the Mediterranean basin of the first millennium BC. The themes were chosen to highlight the regional variations between ...

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• Hercules: Myth and Legacy 

  Richards, Candace

  Published 2023-02-01

  Hercules: Myth and Legacy is an interdisciplinary exhibition that uses two narrative arcs simultaneously to retell the ancient mythological saga of Hercules’ twelve labours and to discuss the reception of Hercules in the ...

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• Stuffed, Stitched and Studied: Taxidermy in the 19th century 

  Philp, Jude; Anthony, Gill; Blackburn, Robert; Lui-Chivizhe, Leah

  Published 2015

  Taxidermy is the process of making a life-like sculpture of an animal from its own skin. To make an elephant one needs a wooden frame, a fish needs gentle stuffing, a kangaroo needs stuffing and wire too; for a caterpillar ...

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