Moss exhibition dives into murky histories of museum collections
September 12, 2024
September 12, 2024
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Sept. 12 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:
On a desk of the private study collection of the Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin, an old stuffed parrot guarded a small library and a vast, yet obsolete ornithology collection. An excited young scientist read a story on the origins of the desiccated animal for the purpose of entertaining a group of visitors. It may have been the last "speaker" of a dead Indigenous language from colonial Venezuela or . . .
On a desk of the private study collection of the Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin, an old stuffed parrot guarded a small library and a vast, yet obsolete ornithology collection. An excited young scientist read a story on the origins of the desiccated animal for the purpose of entertaining a group of visitors. It may have been the last "speaker" of a dead Indigenous language from colonial Venezuela or . . .