Tag: Horniman Museum
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The Unwrinkled Walrus of South London
On a hill in Forest Hill, in a museum that feels faintly like a fever dream of the British Empire, exists a walrus that launched a thousand double-takes. The walrus at the Horniman Museum and Gardens is, depending on your angle, either magnificently absurd or quietly profound. Officially, it is a late-Victorian taxidermy specimen of an Atlantic…
