The Natural History Museum of Lost Ecology exhibits artworks of natural species, encompassing special forces, resistance and potentials in times of ecological crisis.
The exhibiting artists have taken departure from the Nordic Red Lists of species at high risk of global extinction. The museum aims to preserve hope and memories through artworks created from associations, impressions and fabulation based on scientific research. We welcome you inside the museum and hope for you to treat it as an active place for grieving, enjoying or celebrating nature and its forces.
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Citrine Waxcap
Hygrocybe citrinovirens
Latin name
Hygrocybe citrinovirens
Conservation status
Endagered
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05.03.2023↓
The Living Seam of Time
Artist
Nvisible Studio
Format
Video
Year
2021
Emilia Tapprest (NVISIBLE.STUDIO) is a Finnish artist and filmmaker based in the Netherlands. The living seam (2021) was filmed for the Natural History Museum of Lost Ecology in July 2021 at the Błędów Desert in Poland in the context of the LIOS Labs arts and ecology research platform in collaboration with drone operator Janusz Obirek.
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Clouded Apollo
Parnassius mnemosyne
Latin name
Parnassius mnemosyne
Conservation status
Extinct
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22.05.2023↓
The remembering of Mnemosyne
Artist
Ida Lissner
Format
Video
Year
2021
The work presents the materialisation of imagining something after its disappearance. It questions what happens to a species after it is gone; What stories does it leave behind? How do we remember it? Mnemosyne, or Parnassius mnemosyne, is an endangered butterfly species that is extinct in many areas due to the destruction of its forest habitats. The species is named after the Greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne, whose name derives from the Greek word mnēmē, which means "remembrance” or “memory". The continuing disappearance of Parnassius mnemosyne could prove that the species is already the memory it was foretold to be.
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Mosses and lichens
Bryophyta
Latin name
Bryophyta
Conservation status
Endagered
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05.06.2023↓
Bryobionta – Lichenum
Artist
Maija Annikki Savolainen
Format
Still photography
Year
2021
Throughout the times, the tool for identifying plant species has always been the a very precise and specific manner to draw living plant individuals and the description of the habitat of the species. A herbarium compiled this way could be described as photo-accurate. Today, plant textbooks use photographs, but they still have not completely replaced drawings. In her photographs, Savolainen uses mirrors among the moss and lichen growth to cut irregular and repetitive shapes on the image surface. They multiply plants, show different aspects of them, and reflect their environment and the light in it.
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