{"id":96,"date":"2024-07-30T10:52:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T09:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/?p=96"},"modified":"2024-07-30T10:52:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T09:52:32","slug":"taxidermy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/2024\/07\/30\/taxidermy\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxidermy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Taxidermy is such a beautiful artform &#8211; but how realistic is it?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The artform involves taking the outside skin of the actual animal, and placing it on top of a studio recreated internal structure of said animal. But can you trust a taxidermy recreation in a Natural History Museum?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have a look at this taxidermy recreation in comparison to the real polar bear.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_127\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127\" style=\"width: 356px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-127\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/files\/2024\/06\/Taxidermy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxidermy polar bear display, Natural History Museum, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-126\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-126\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/files\/2024\/06\/Polar-Bear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polar bear posing for the camera on the beach in Northern Alaska<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Look at the differences between the two images above&#8230; is taxidermy really capturing the likeness of the animal? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How much of the taxidermy animal is actually factually correct, and how much is \u2018scientific\u2019 artistic liberty? Should scientists and curators be in charge of reconstructing natural life&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Great Tit<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-125\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/files\/2024\/05\/IMG_5327.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><b>Hawfinch<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-124\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/files\/2024\/05\/IMG_5327-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxidermy is such a beautiful artform &#8211; but how realistic is it? The artform involves taking the outside skin of the actual animal, and placing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/2024\/07\/30\/taxidermy\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[294574],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/museumofimaginedkent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}