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Rare opportunity for a close encounter with our feathered friends

In reviewing the museum’s natural history holdings for the latest exhibition, curators re-visited specimens that tell stories of bygone collecting practices when natural history specimens were commodified for fashion, trade, and scientific exchange both within Aotearoa and around the world.

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Rare alpine tikumu daisy links past to present

When the Nelson Provincial Museum recently acquired tikumu (Celmisia semicordata) samples from a local weaver, they joined a collection of this rare alpine daisy that pre-date European settlement.

 

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