Specimens of Change. An Exhibition of Limerick Museum’s Natural History Collections, Curated by Dr Zara Power, Assistant Curator will open in Limerick Museum.
Via the medium of Limerick Museum’s natural history collections, this exhibition will explore changes within Ireland’s ecosystem over many millions of years. Natural history collections have been used to study many important scientific questions, including disease outbreaks, climate change, extinction, pollution, and evolution. These collections include preserved animals, skeletons, fossils, and plants stored in museums and universities worldwide.
Some of the species on display no longer exist in the natural world and act as a powerful reminder that creatures which once roared and roamed freely, can now only be seen within the cased confines of natural history collections.
The exhibition invites the public to engage with our rarely seen natural history collections. Our collection is diverse and includes examples of palaeontology, zoology, oology, entomology, and botany in the form of an important herbarium amassed by the renowned Limerick botanist Charlotte O'Brien of Mount Trenchard, Foynes, Co. Limerick. The exhibition will highlight that the Museum is not merely a storehouse of 'old things' but a tangible record of a changing planet.
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The Old Franciscan Friary, Henry Street, Limerick, V94 C7W1
