Would you care to handle my very old... thing?

[jonesiexxx]

I had great fun at the ROM on Saturday. I added two new arrows to my quiver. (In this case, that's a metaphor, but given that one of the Gallery Interpreter objects is an ancient Greek arrowhead, I felt the need to spell that out :D

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[opalescence]

Cool stuff!

What's the fixed bat display? Sorry, I had to ask!!

[jonesiexxx]

Sorry, I had to ask!!

I tell ya, there's one in every group. :D

One of the specimens I'm trained to use with visitors is a bat. It's real, taxidermied bat. It's too fragile to handle, so it's mounted in a clear plastic display box. I hand the box around to people and ask questions and have a dialogue about bats.

Well, last time I used in the galleries, the bat came loose! It didn't escape and turn into a vampire and feed on unsuspecting ROM-goers. It just slid around inside its box. It would soon get damaged. So I put it away and reported it, assuming a curator would remount it. On Saturday, I saw Gary, my fearless GI leader trying to mount it and not being able to figure out how. By some fluke, I was the one to figure it out. Usually I'm a total spazzoid with the physical world.

So, it was a good thing I did. But it squicked me a little handling a dead bat. brrrrrr

[avrelia]

Oh, grew up with those! (not Egyptians, the mummy portraits) there is a gorgeous collection in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and I remember being very fascinated by them

[cynesthesia]

#1 sounds fab (I lurved Roman art history.) Is there a photo of it at ROM?

I really really want to ask about the bat display. :D

[cynesthesia]

Ah, read the bat story above.