Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads - Asma, Stephen T. (Professor of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Humanities, Columbia College, Chicago)

The natural history museum is a place where the line between "high" and "low" culture effectively vanishes - where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre and our thirst for knowledge all blend together. But, as this text shows, there is more going on in these institutions than just smart fun.