One of the Manchester Museum’s temporary exhibitions entitled ‘Beauty and the Beasts: falling in love with insects’, which was opened from late Nov 2019 till Dec 2020, was devoted to insects, their beauty and cultural importance for people. Due to the coronavirus crisis the exhibition was opened to the public only for few months from late Nov 2019 to mid-March 2020. However, its full, richly illustrated content is freely accessible here online. Despite being unable to run tours to the exhibition, we continue to introduce our audience to its content by running online zoom talks and discussion sessions. One of such sessions with the visitors from the Manchester Culture Champions resulted in a lovely feedback: a poem written and presented to us by one of its participants, Nakib Narat, who was inspired by our presentation and the content of the exhibition. Please, have a look below and enjoy as we do. Thank you very much Nakib for such delightful and unexpected feedback.
Three Christmas Stars of Manchester Museum
(Thank You very much to Curators Rachel Webster and Dmitri Logunov for the wonderful Zoom talk about their work, displays and stories about some of the extraordinary plants and creatures in the Manchester Museum)
Lovely Three Stars of Zoom event
Bearing gifts so generously sent.
Magical Manchester Museum’s curiosities
Gifted from Orient to Occident.
Maria Jose’s “Made to Measure”
Amazing, extraordinary treasures!
From “Beauty & The Beasts” luminosities:
Dmitri & Rachel’s personal pleasures.
O Stars of wonder, stars so bright
Joyful, learning. So discerning
Rachel & Dmitri’s wondrous sights!
Entomology to Botany and Zoology
Mantis Shrimp to Moths and bugs that glow
Herbariums for ecosystems yearning
As Insectophiles gather ‘neath the Mistletoe
Humans and insects connected.
All life only protected
When we are a whole.
All life only protected
When we are a whole
Nakib Narat
Entomology Manchester 
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