When:
May 3, 2018 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
2018-05-03T13:00:00+01:00
2018-05-03T14:00:00+01:00
Where:
Huxley Lecture Theatre at ZSL London Zoo
Outer Cir
Marylebone, London NW1 4PJ
UK
Outer Cir
Marylebone, London NW1 4PJ
UK
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Natural history museums are magical places. They inspire awe and wonder in the natural world and help us understand our place within the animal kingdom.
But they are places for people, made by people. We might like to consider them logical places, but if we look close enough we can detect biases in the decisions for which animals are selected for display.
Museums are a product of their own history, and that of the societies they are embedded in. They are not apolitical, and they are not entirely scientific. As such, they don’t really represent reality.