The display will be featured in a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art as part of a historic collaboration along the National Mall Jack Tamisiea Collection manager Floyd Shockley used ...
For nearly two centuries, a point of Chicago’s civic pride has been its connection to the natural world. One of our mottos, “Urbs in Horto,” extols ours as a city in a garden. Yet not everyone in the ...
CHICAGO -- Every displayed item has a story at The Insect Asylum, a vintage taxidermy museum in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood. Owner and founder Nina Salem has spent years curating her massive ...
A new bug is joining the shelves of the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s 7-million-strong insect collection, one made not of antennae and exoskeleton, but of wires and lenses: “Lightning Bug,” a ...