Fruits in Decay: Glass Flowers Exhibit

Event Date as Display String:

Thursday, September 5, 2019, 9:00am - 5:00pm

Location:

Harvard Museum of Natural History , 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

URL:

https://hmnh.harvard.edu/fruits-decay

Event Description:

Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019 - Sunday, March 1, 2020 While we eagerly await
the ripening of our favorite summer fruits, microscopic competitors
are at work multiplying and consuming them in a world beyond our
sight. If we wait too long, the activity of fungi, bacteria, and other
microbes will soon appear as an unexpected blotch, suspicious "fuzz,"
or oddly curled foliage. Fruits in Decay is a new special exhibit in
the Glass Flowers gallery that explores blight, rot, and other
diseases on summer fruits. It features exquisitely detailed glass
botanical models of strawberries, peaches, apricots, plums, and pears
made by famed glass artist Rudolf Blaschka. On display for the first
time in nearly two decades, these models capture — with astonishing
realism — the intricacies and strange beauty of fruits in various
stages of decay.

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Event Start Date as Date Type:

Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 09:00 to 17:00

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