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Beautiful images from Maria Sibylla Merian, 'Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung ...' 1679.

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Today’s Museum Week theme is books and it’s also Pink Flamingo Day!

Perfect for this spread out of The Alphabeast Book: An Abecedarium by Dorothy Schmiderer (1971). It was in an older exhibition of ours, Picturing Words. See all our online exhibitions, both past and present, on our website.

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This popular book on software engineering observed that adding people to a late project almost always makes it later. Brooks wrote it in response to IBM-chief Tom Watson’s asking why programming projects were so hard to manage. #BooksMW

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Museum Week heads to the stacks today for #BooksMW.

This is one of many Centennial Registers signed by visitors to the 1876 Centennial International Exposition held in Philadelphia. Measuring 23″ x 20″ the behemoth volume weighs in at over 75 pounds! President Ulysses S. Grant signed the book during his visit to the exposition. The register was given to President Ford 100 years later as a Bicentennial gift in 1976. 

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"A row of books spanning 15 kilometres"

She first was one of our guards but after one year Marie Depris found a biotope that suited her better: the museum's library. The library has 10,000 periodicals (scientific and general), more than 300,000 books and as many other documents (maps, plans, photographs, archive documents, etc.), all available for consultation. A collection spanning 15 kilometres!

"The oldest book you can find here is L’histoire entière des poissons from 1558, written by Guillaume Rondelet, but my favorite one is Richard Owen's Memoir on the Gorilla (1865). The drawing of that little gorilla sleeping! I discovered the book when I was making a selection of publications about great apes for a small exhibition in the reading room."

"We exchange a lot of books with libraries in foreign countries. That's why we have all languages present: from English and Portuguese to Chinese and Indonesian. We also have a lot of Russian documentation because a lot of the excavations took place in Siberia. We even have a publication in volapük, a language created by a German Roman-Catholic priest in 1879, who said God had told him in a dream to create an international language."

Pictured: Marie with her favorite book Memoir on the Gorilla; the oldest book in our collections, Rondelet's L’histoire entière des poissons; two pictures of conservatories with books, the last one is the collection of the malacologist Philippe Dautzenberg, whose vast and important shell collection we also curate.

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The Vaynor Collection of 16th & 17th Century astronomical books, including several of the writings of Galileo!  

From our Library’s Special Collections.

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Celebrate Cephalopod Week and Museum Week’s Books day with these cephalopods from Conrad Gesner's 1558 Historiae Animalium Liber IIII.

From our Library collections. 

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The Golden Cockerel version of The Mabinogion illus. by Dorothea Braby (1948), currently on show at Oriel y Parc.