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Our
Museum Wing
Feel
welcomed to our site's Museum Wing. Our cabinets are full of precious
specimens, and we have arranged in our galleries diverse exhibitions related
to molluscs.
For
collectors, their private museum is a hide away, there they find the necessary
privacy to admire their prodigious treasures, there blooms the romance
between the seductive shapes and colours of these objects of art that
nature transformed into living creatures and the collector, whose life
is continuously marked with the joy of feeling being always in love, the
unordinary attraction to its priceless possesions, and on the other side,
with the misfortune of its fate, a life that often turns to be a endless
journey of uncertainity in search of that missing specimen. It's a never
ending battle between themselves and their mind's hunger for beauty.
Our
aim is that from time to time unusual shell specimens from our collections
will be placed here in exhibit. Also the new curious specimens found in
every journey will be found here, and with loan from other collections,
will be assembled other shell related exhibitions.
All
these events will be announced in advance at the Main Hall and here.
We
will be as said honoured to house in exhibit any specimen from our guest's
cabinets considered of importance to be studied/admired, of course giving
full credits. So feel free to contact us and provide information on your
treasures. Specially welcomed are tribal shell artifacts, freaks or strange
forms of molluscs, deep water shells or oceanic island endemic species
of landsnails.
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Our
Shell Gallery
Featuring
the following exhibitions:
Sinistral
shells are collector's items; have a look at some of them found in our
journeys and some other ones from our collections.
Nature
sometimes makes tests, most wont survive, but these reached adult stage;
I suppose it was not easy for them at all.
There
are many admired and desired species to be found scarcely in strange spots
of this planet.
This
is the begining of a series of imageplates, assembled with the most beautiful
specimens found in our journeys. Usually we will list them geographically,
and these first ones are devoted to Landsnails.
Shells
have been used in different ways during history and in different cultures.
Some curious and interesting samples; it is art made from shells.
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