The skeleton’s new clothes
On Friday, 27 March, the renovated Museum of Zoology at the K.U.Leuven was opened. The museum hall, the arrangement of the collections and the information panels have been adapted to current knowledge of the animal kingdom and the demands of a modern didactic museum. The Museum of Zoology was founded in 1817 and currently contains over 5,000 pieces; primarily animals preserved by taxidermy or by liquid preservation. The most impressive specimen is the skeleton of a Bowhead Whale, which dates to approximately 1880. To highlight the 150th birthday of Darwin’s evolutionary theory, the museum organised an exhibition related to evolution at the beginning of April.
http://bio.kuleuven.be/darwin2009.html
