![]() On particularly special moments of the exhibition and the overall message they hope people will take away, Buckley said that they’re hoping the finale to the exhibit will be particularly inspiring for visitors: Anything we put together we passed through them to make sure we were on message, so it’s been a very creative process, and an interesting mix of science and creativity!” Showing them round, they were very pleased. “They’re really interesting because they see things through a slightly different lens to us, so it was really great to meet with them and talk through the premise of the exhibition, and for them to see that this would make a great link. and The Blair Partnership, however, that was a bit of a first! “We’ve worked with the BBC Natural History unit a lot, and we make a lot of props and models ourselves, so working with somewhere like Framestore was great, but it’s not that we’d never done that before. and The Blair Partnership on the exhibit, and how science and creativity merged to produce and exhibit that celebrates both natural science and storytelling: We show these comparisons in the exhibit, for example showing the way that the Demiguise uses invisibility, and then drawing comparisons to animals that use remarkable forms of camouflage, or the Occamy that grows and shrinks to fill space, and then animals in the real-world that use shape-shifting.”Ĭornish explained what it was like to work with Warner Bros. “Over 300 scientists are at the museum, and we would hold all sorts of workshops with them where we would present different fantastic beasts, and identified parallels with the abilities and behaviours of these magical fictional creatures and the extraordinary abilities of real-world animals. Buckley explained the “Wizarding World education” lessons they used to helped shape the exhibit: Rowling’s magical creatures, in order to draw out parallels with real-world creatures that could be used to inspire visitors at the exhibit to learn more about the natural world. The process of creating such an exhibit involved educating scientists at the museum about J.K. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images) Getty Images ![]() History Museum on Decemin London, England. Bringing together fact and fiction in this way, it tells you something about storytelling, and about how scientific knowledge has changed over time.”Ī skeleton goes on view during the "Fantastic Beasts: The Wonder of Nature" photo call at Natural. “For example, hundreds of thousands of years ago, how did people interpret dinosaur bones when they found those, and what sort of stories did that prompt? Then there are other stories about animals like the narwhal arctic whale, and how their tusks were often traded as a magical unicorn horn. With some mythical beings like dragons, unicorns, mermaids, there are clearly parallels between real things people have seen, and these mythical beings have roots in interpretations of things that haven’t been understood at that point in time, so it’s a great way to draw out messages of discovery and the evolution of knowledge. “In this exhibition in particular we really explore the storytelling aspect of science and discovery. The exhibit also explores how knowledge has evolved over the years, and Buckley illustrated the fascinating connections that came out of exploring parallels between Rowling’s beasts and real-world mythologies and discoveries: "Fantastic Beasts: The Wonder of Nature" exhibit at The Natural History Museum in London. The Kakapo, an endangered flightless parrot once on the brink of extinction, displayed at the. We put a lot of effort into exploring those conservation stories and contrasting those with Newt’s own story, showing things like Newt’s last breeding pair of Graphorns, and real efforts to bring animals back from the brink, like the story of incredible efforts to save the Kakapo, a flightless parrot, in New Zealand.” “We wanted to do something on threats to animals in the wizarding world, and Newt’s role as a carer or protector of fantastic beasts, and drawing parallels between Newt and other scientists and conservationists. Rowling’s Wizarding World that they wanted to be at the heart of the parallels drawn in the exhibit: Buckley said it was Newt’s role as a protector of species in J.K. Putting together the exhibit took two years (which is usual on an exhibit of this scale, Exhibition Lead Louis Buckley explained), and well over one hundred people from woodworkers and joiners, to scientists, film makers and project managers. Beasts: The Wonder of Nature' exhibit The Natural History Museum The conservation team at The Natural History Museum working to prepare specimens for the 'Fantastic.
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