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GUEST POST: A jar of pickled moles, haunting trees, Friday disasters and anatomy museum corpses- a smorgasbord of interesting things from curator Neil Lebeter

Posted on 16 October 2011 by Chelsea Nichols
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Jar of pickled moles from the Grant Museum of Zoology, University College London.

Jar of pickled moles from the Grant Museum of Zoology, University College London. (Image: xtinalamb, via Flickr. Click image to go to source)

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Posted in Contemporary Art, Curiosities, Guest Post, history, Museums | Tagged curiosities, grotesque, guest post, haunting, installation, institution, moles, museum, outsider art, sculpture, textile, trees | 10 Replies

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Agnes Richter's embroidered straitjacket
Women Laughing Alone With Salad
Abandoned suitcases of insane asylum patients
Preserved loaf of bread discovered at Pompeii
EJ Bellocq and the Storyville prostitutes
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Burnt and melted wax figures after the 1925 fire at Madame Tussauds in London
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