Tree is the short and succinct name for a new permanent installation at the Natural History Museum.
Erected to commemorate 200 years since Charles Darwin's birth, and installed in the ceiling of a gallery, tree takes its concept from the Darwin's tree of life. It's a wooden, cross-section of a 200 year old oak tree with branches stretching across the gallery's ceiling.
Most impressively, at over 17 metres long, Tree will be the Natural History Museum's largest botany specimen on display.
I was impressed by the way the artist Tania Kovats managed to mix her artistic touch with the Museum's scientific endeavour. I liked how as I looked at the tree, I started to consider the science and its 'natural history'.
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Tree @ Natural History Museum
Thursday, March 26, 2009
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1 comments:
You sound like Carrie Bradshaw in that last sentence.
I always hated the Natural History Museum but perhaps I need to reassess now I am not 9.
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