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Visit the online exhibition of the The Museum of Beyond

25 August 2020

The Museum of Beyond - online Objects of the Misanthropocene exhibition has just opened -.

Museum of Beyond picture of fosilla

 This is a unique opportunity to experience exceptional objects from the future of the Anthropocene, sent back to our present in this landmark temporary exhibition event. The curators are Dean Sully, Cecilie Gravesen- active members of the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies- and Ariel Li & Katherine Beckwith.

From the rare archaeological remains of a 21st Century Lottery ticket to the deep time future of an Anthropocene epoch stratotype specimen, the insouciant objects in the exhibition reveal the fossilisation of human agency on a planetary scale. Traces of sedimentation in the geological specimens bear silent witness to a future that has already happened as a consequence of the missed opportunities of our present actions. Fossil carbon usage, radiation markers and anthroglomerates are evident in some of the striking displays. Along with these are remarkable Pre-Apocalypse technology fragments, digital landscape reconstructions, and never-before displayed cast body parts.
Developed in collaboration with (ex-humanus) curators from The Museum of Beyond, the exhibition provides a powerfully certain future perspective on our uncertain present.
Visit the exhibition online.

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Photo: Fossila ©  courtesy of the Museum of Beyond