Natural history museums - unseen specimens
Carl Zimmer is one of my favorite science writers. He has an article in Seed’s online magazine about all the stuff you *don’t* see in natural history museums. I used to volunteer cleaning bird skeletons in a natural history museum - those back halls and rooms are fascinating! It was totally worth having my hair smell like rotten birds.
Back when I lived in Chicagoland “Members Night” at the Field Museum of Natural History was one of the highlights of the year. We got to see all that stuff.