Science and the natural world — specimens, minerals, plants, wildlife.
Float among the worlds with people who look up too. NASA public-domain views.
Fossils, gems, and deep time — for everyone who never outgrew the wonder.
The most extravagant plumage on Earth — the birds that made naturalists doubt their eyes.
The father of natural history — Aldrovandi’s Renaissance beasts, birds, and marvelous monsters.
Paleo nerds and deep-time wanderers — bones, beasts, and wonder.
Our team creates Hottubs — tell us what's worth gathering around near you and we review every suggestion.
Foragers and mycology nerds — vintage fungi plates and the joy of the find.
Birders and nature lovers — Audubon's hand-drawn birds of America.
Rockhounds and collectors — gemstones, crystals, and the mineral kingdom.
Vintage plant plates — for gardeners, herbalists, and botany nerds.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté's famous flower plates — roses, lilies, and more, for gardeners and romantics.
Shells and the creatures that made them — for beachcombers and conchologists.
Wings under glass — vintage lepidoptera plates for butterfly lovers.
The most extravagant family of flowers — historic orchid plates for growers and dreamers.
Gould’s iridescent plates — the tiny jewels of the Americas, caught mid-shimmer.
Telescopes, orreries, microscopes — the beautiful tools of early science.
Vesalius and the historic art of the human body — for medicine and art alike.
Old pharmacies, remedy jars, and the history of the apothecary’s craft.
No two alike — Wilson Bentley photographed thousands through a microscope. Like everyone in this room, each one of a kind.
Ernst Haeckel’s radiolaria, jellyfish, and diatoms — where science becomes ornament.
A quarter of all animal species are beetles — vintage plates of their endless variety.
Vintage ichthyology plates — for aquarists, anglers, and lovers of the deep.
The wishful color of old seed and nursery catalogs — every gardener’s winter dream.
The Wunderkammer — coral, narwhal tusks, and crocodiles on the ceiling, before the museum was invented.
The plant as medicine — the painted herbals that doctored the world before the pharmacy.
The New World drawn for the first time — Catesby’s birds, fish, and plants of Carolina and the Bahamas.
Caterpillar to butterfly on the living host plant — Merian’s revolutionary insects of Suriname.
Linnaeus’s own illustrator — Ehret’s exact, luminous plates at the dawn of modern botany.
A Curious Herbal — drawn, engraved, and hand-colored by one woman to free her husband from debtors’ prison.
The Aurelian — Moses Harris’s English butterflies, moths, and the caterpillars they came from.
Edward Lear’s life-size parrots of 1832 — color so bold it still startles.
The great storms seen whole — the spiral arms and the eye, from orbit.
Eruptions and ash plumes from above — the planet remaking itself, caught by satellite.
The night side — city lights, ships, and fires tracing where we live.
Rivers of ice from orbit — the great glaciers and the breaking sea ice.
Seas of sand from above — dune fields and the painted deserts of the world.
Where rivers meet the sea — the branching fans and braided channels seen from space.
The strange, beautiful imagery of alchemy — proto-chemistry and its symbols.