The Natural History Museum of Lost Ecology is an online exhibition that emerged out of a longing for a language for nature and species.
The online exhibition is an attempt to find new such languages and communities where, through the artist’s contributions, new possible languages and connections are woven. The museum is a result of a common interest in finding new ways in which visual design and art can aid in the conversation about our changing climate. In order to increase the conversation on biodiversity and preservation. We consider this project as a collaboration between science and art by bridging and presenting the disciplines, material and matter together. As science is predominantly manifested in the form of writing or numbers, we are inviting visual artists and makers to create artworks of the species for this form of exhibition. The exhibition takes the form of an online museum as a way of taking our contemporary natural history out of the dust and breeding new life into it. We want to preserve memories as museums do best, because we now feel a need to preserve and to take care more urgently than ever.
The exhibiting artists are taking departure from the Nordic Red Lists of species at high risk of global extinction. The Red List is a register of plants, animals and fungal species that have been assessed to be at risk of extinction. The Red List provides an overall overview of how endangered a species is and whether the number and habitat of species are stable or in progress of decline. The Natural History Museum of Lost Ecology is a Nordic collaboration with contributors predominantly from Finland and Denmark. It is an ongoing project which continue to build the museum of the (almost) lost ecology. Grieve, enjoy or celebrate – Administration of the Museum