If only the victorians treated animals like this 🥺 Obaysch would be living in luxury

A domestic dog skull - interestingly lined up like any other specimen. To me this illustrates the essential contradictions of zoology. The need to care for an animal and forge a human bond to an animal that is kept at arms length within zoos and

A students notebook with a dissected frog and an elephants heart. This shows the educational value of the Grant museum. The elephant heart is dyed to clearly display its anatomy.

Here are some other photographs from my trip:

An orangutan head- It becomes clear why the Victorians described orangutans like humans, even before the revelation of evolution by Charles Darwin.

This orang-utan was donated to the Grant Museum in 1917 and taxidermied by Edward Gerrard & Sons. Edward Gerrard was an attendant at the British Museum, illustrating the broad network

Gerrard & Sons were based in Camden not far from London Zoo.

In this design there is a tower in the middle of prison cells, all forming a circular shape. The tower is occupied by an unseen prison guard. The sheer possibility of this guard sparks the prisoners to behave in an orderly fashion - governing themselves in the process.

The case study chosen for this particular project is London Zoo in the mid to late nineteenth century, starting around about the time Britain's first alive hippo was introduced into the park (Obaysch, May 1850).