CURIOUSER 2011: Art, Science, and the Secret Lives of Specimens September 24, 2012

For the second year running, Providence's Museum of Natural History has invited a group of contemporary artists to create new works drawing from over 250,000 rarely-seen items held in its Victorian collections. For the 2011 exhibit, five New England artists will create works that present specimens from the Museum's 19th century collections in a transformative light, seeking out secret narratives, latent myths and hidden agendas within a vast catalogue of pinned insects, taxidermy animals, boxed birds' eggs and more. Curiouser!s innovative works invite viewers to look forward as well as back, exploring the !history of natural history' while drawing connections to our own complex relationships with nature today