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Oceanomania
To Tantalise through Distance
The Kingdom of the Pearl
The Plant as a Living Creature
Huh?
Everybody is an Artist, or Reading is Making
And other sordid details.
Unnatural Encounters
Longing for a Distant Land
Coffee with vinegar and mustard, anyone?
Antecedents of Frottage
Arguments against eBooks?
Atlas of Remote Islands
It’s nice when they’re soft.
Necessary

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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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