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Blaschka Models

A glass model, by Rudolf Blaschka, of an apple ringed with brown rot.

31 days of halloween

Rotten Apples That Will Last Forever

A close-up look at the botanical glass artist Rudolf Blaschka's last—and strangest—project.

Cara Giaimo October 12, 2017

The Delicate Glass Sea Creatures of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka

A father-and-son team created a menagerie of incredible glass models using mysterious methods.

Sponsored by The Corning Museum of Glass

Corning Museum of Glass

Corning, New York

Corning Museum of Glass

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

Naturhistorisches Museum

Vienna, Austria

Naturhistorisches Museum

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

A Nicobar Tree Shrew in the Grant Museum of Zoology

London, England

Grant Museum of Zoology

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Montreal, Québec

Redpath Museum

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

Dublin, Ireland

Natural History building, National Museum of Ireland

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

Kremsmünster, Austria

Kremsmunster Observatory

This "mathematical tower" was an observatory, early skyscraper, and place to reflect on all of nature and the cosmos.

Proof that birds migrate over Africa.

Rostock, Germany

Zoological Collection of the University of Rostock

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Blaschka Glass Flowers

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.