Natural History Museum
University museum of fossils, minerals and wildlife set amid a historic botanical garden.
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This guide to the Natural History Museum in Oslo follows Ida, a forty-seven-million-year-old primate fossil named after a paleontologist's six-year-old daughter, from a German fossil pit in nineteen eighty-three to a crowded New York press event in May two thousand nine. It asks what happens when a scientific find is talked about in the language of relics and pilgrimage. Best heard standing in front of her case in the Geological Museum.
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