Book Review: Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey
Review by Sid Perkins
By Science News
Museums are more than collections of art and artifacts: They’re collections of the people who work there.
In Dry Storeroom No. 1, paleontologist Richard Fortey provides a behind-the-scenes look at London’s Natural History Museum, a fascinating account that’s less a history of the institution and more an intimate chronicle of the achievements, the hopes and frustrations, and the virtues and failings of the scientists who strive to bring the museum’s collections to life.