From the moment the Museum opened the Fragile Legacy: The Marine Invertebrate Glass Models of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka exhibition this May, Museum staff have been busy providing tours of the gallery to visitors, guests, and reporters. There’s a never … Read more →
More than 500 miles from Corning, at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center in Virginia Beach, graphic artist and science illustrator Catherine Miller fell in love with Octopus salutii (Blaschka Nr. 573), one of the marine invertebrate models featured … Read more →
George Loudon is a London-based retired banker, art collector, and author. In this guest blog post, he talks about his shift from collecting contemporary art to being drawn to 19th-century scientific curiosities. A shared passion for contemporary art and for … Read more →
Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka’s glass models of marine invertebrates were successful not only because of the accuracy and intricate level of detail that made them excellent for scientific study, but also because, in the right light, they almost appear to … Read more →