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Month April 2009

The Collector (VII)

I stop for hours to watch butterflies.

Taking leave of the world.

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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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