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Month September 2007

An act of Buddhist kindness.
Eileen Agar, Ceremonial Hat for Eating BouillabaisseDear My Inspiration
I dream of a new age of curiosity.
Scintillating leaps of the imagination.
Surrealist Map of the World, 1929Blown out of proportion.
Mark Dion, Bureau, 2005, desk.Inventory (II)
Mark Dion, Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy, 2005, detail.Inventory (I)
large_00musselAlien Invaders
Living Jewels 4Living Jewels
Brassai, Sculptures InvolontairesThe Marvel of Minuteness
FREUD_POLLAKTowards a more sedentary lifestyle.
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cartographers of the marvellous

  • 50 Watts
  • Atlas Obscura
  • BibliOdyssey
  • Bioephemera
  • Blind Pony Books
  • But Does it Float
  • Colossal Art & Design
  • Morbid Anatomy
  • Next Nature
  • Quigley's Cabinet
  • Strange Maps
  • The Academy of Curiosity
  • The Book of Barely Imagined Beings
  • The Popular Uncanny
  • The Zymoglyphic Museum Curator's Web Log
  • Voyages Extraordinaires
  • wanderlust

friends of the marvellous

  • Alpesh Patel
  • Catriona McAra
  • Chris Plumb
  • Colour/"Chroma"
  • Jon Glover
  • Marion Endt-Jones
  • Matt
  • Minerva's Owl Repairs
  • Naomi No Umi
  • rag-picking history
  • Ruinous Recollections
  • Sophie Munns

institutions

  • AAH
  • AHVS Manchester
  • arthist.net
  • Centre de Vulgarisation de la Connaissance
  • Centre for Museology
  • Deutscher Museumsbund
  • Henry Moore Foundation
  • Institute for Cultural Practices
  • Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
  • Museum Studies, Leicester
  • University of Manchester
  • Wellcome Collection
  • ZI Munich

magazines & journals

  • Antennae
  • Art & Research
  • Cabinet
  • Common-Place
  • Curiositas
  • Dialogue
  • mare
  • Museum & Society
  • Rheinsprung 11
  • Seed Magazine
  • The Believer
  • The Manchester Review
  • things magazine

marine & wildlife

  • Census of Marine Life
  • Census of Marine Life Europe
  • Crochet Coral Reef
  • Deep Blue Home
  • H.M.S. Challenger Library
  • mare online
  • Mind and Ocean / Oceanophilia
  • Naked Oceans
  • SeaMonster
  • Smithsonian Ocean Portal
  • The Oldest Living Things In The World
  • The Plastiki
  • wild ocean blue

museums

  • California Academy of Sciences
  • Château d’Oiron
  • Le Muséum
  • Manchester Museum
  • Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
  • Musée du Quai Branly
  • Musée Gassendi
  • Museum der Unerhörten Dinge
  • Museum of Jurassic Technology
  • Seafoam Palace
  • Sir John Soane’s Museum
  • The Zymoglyphic Museum

natural history & life science

  • Bestiaire du Moyen Âge
  • Charles Darwin Online
  • Encyclopaedia of Life
  • Frog Blog Manchester
  • Linnean Society
  • Natural History Magazine
  • Nature
  • Preserved!
  • Romantic Natural History
  • Sir David Attenborough
  • Strange Science
  • Taxidermy: ravishing beasts
  • The Medieval Bestiary
  • Tree of Life

surrealism &ct.

  • André Breton's Studio
  • Karl Blossfeldt Archive
  • Mass Observation Online
  • Mélusine
  • Papers of Surrealism
  • Surrealism Centre
  • Ubu Web

tumblelogging the marvellous

  • Awesome People Reading
  • book lovers never go to bed alone
  • Bookshelf Porn
  • coral grove
  • OnyxEarth
  • seed capsules
  • The 50 Watts tumblr
  • Things Organized Neatly
  • vintage national geographic scans
  • Writers No One Reads

wunderkammer

  • A Case of Curiosities
  • Alchemy
  • Angela Lorenz
  • Brought To Life
  • Collections and Archives as Creative Practice
  • Devices of Wonder
  • Deyrolle – taxidermie, entomologie, curiosités naturelles
  • Found
  • Herbert Pfostl's Paper Graveyard
  • Information is Beautiful
  • Leafcutter Designs
  • Lexilogos
  • Mark Dion’s Bartram’s Travels
  • Museum of Ephemerata
  • Museum of Online Museums
  • Nick Jordan
  • NOTCOT.COM
  • PostSecret
  • Sue Johnson’s Alternate Encyclopaedia
  • The Bone Room
  • The Fantastic in Art and Fiction
  • The Little Museum
  • The Lost Museum
  • The Museum of Ridiculously Interesting Things
  • The Secret Museum
  • The Wildgoose Memorial Library
  • Very Small Objects

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