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Collection Bites

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Dates:4 December 2013
Times:13:00 - 14:00
What is it:Talk
Organiser:Manchester Museum
Who is it for:University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public, Post 16, Secondary schools
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Collection Bites: Translucent Marvels: The Blaschka Glass Models of Marine Invertebrates Wednesday 4 December 1-2pm Book on 0161 275 2648 or museum@manchester.ac.uk, free.

Marion Endt-Jones, art historian and curator of the exhibition Coral: Something Rich and Strange (29 November 2013-16 March 2014) will talk about Manchester Museum's glass models of marine invertebrates, produced by the father and son team Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka at the end of the nineteenth century. Variously described as 'obsolete science', 'high craft', or 'low art', the models have, over time, fulfilled several roles: substitute specimens for marine creatures that are notoriously difficult to preserve; educational tools; and living room decorations. They have more recently, become fetish objects celebrated by the contemporary art scene.

Collection Bites is on the first Wednesday of the month, joined by a series of guest speakers for lunchtime conversations discussing key objects from the collection.

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