A now-extinct emu from Tasmania thrived in gardens owned by Napoleon's wife after being shipped to Paris in 1802. That's just one of the amazing tales from the unseen collection of Tasmania's Museum and Art Gallery.
abc.net.au/news/tasmanian-museum-and-art-gallery-hidden-treasures/102121194What do a delicate feather, a tiny gold-encrusted snail, a furry feline puppet, and a jar of giant sea spiders have in common?The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery's storage and collection facility holds millions of often unseen itemsCurators see themselves as the "current custodians" of the collections
"What I have is a very interesting specimen from an emu that became extinct on King Island in the early 1800s," she said.The feather was given to TMAG by the Paris Museum of Natural History in 2000. "They were given to the Empress Josephine, who was the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte at the time, and Josephine had an amazing garden that was stocked with exotic animals from all over the world at a place called Malmaison.""They survived there until 1822, so, amazingly, those birds actually out-survived the species in the wild."
"It proposed that we rewild Tasmania, and that's an interesting proposition. Because often, when you do reintroduce animals that have become extinct, it does a lot of beneficial things for the ecosystems.TMAG's cultural heritage collection, managed by Kirstie Ross, features old and new items.
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