Dolly Jørgensen

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Environmental historian. Professor Univ of Stavanger. Co-director Greenhouse Center for #envhum. Extinction; animal history.
Books: The Medieval Pig (2024) & Ghosts Behind Glass (2025)
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The point of the exhibition is to challenge visitors to make a connection they had never thought of before: the forest is an oil space and if we are going to make green transitions, we have to understand the depth of the entanglement.

A set of images of artifacts
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The Lusto team did workshops with forest professionals in preparation for the exhibition to get them thinking about connections. One of the prompt questions: what does the material of a camping mug you choose say about you?

Display with camping cups
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The team has overlaid petroculture on the 6 themes of the core exhibition (forest nature, green gold, lifeblood, forest folk, valued forest & forest work) cleverly using oil barrels filled w objects.

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Natural history collections are time capsules of life on Earth, in some cases, records of living species stretch back hundreds of years. Each specimen captures a moment in time, with records showing what species it is, where it was collected and when.

Photograph showing a wooden specimen drawer containing numerous compartmentalised seashells and marine fossils.
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Next UK banknotes to feature barn owls, bumblebees, puffins and hedgehogs

theguardian.comNext UK banknotes to feature barn owls, bumblebees, puffins and hedgehogsFour native species selected after consultation, but which one adorns which note is yet to be decided Bees, barn owls, puffins and hedgehogs have been picked to feature on the next generation of banknotes, the Bank of England has announced. The quartet of creatures were selected after a large-scale consultation settled on wild animals as the theme, with members of the public then asked to pick their favourites out of 18 options divided into three categories. Continue reading...
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Moomintroll: Mamma, has the world ended now? Moominmamma: Yes, it's all over. The world might have ended, but at least it's all done now. (From Comet in Moominland, which is a tale about disaster and shelter)

Moomintroll on left speaks to Moominmamma on right
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