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Center for PostNatural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Center for PostNatural History

Pittsburgh's Center for PostNatural History is a natural history museum unlike any other, in that it focuses almost completely on the unnatural.

This small exhibition space centers around displays based on natural things that have been genetically tampered with my man, or as the museum puts it, "organisms that have been altered through processes such as selective breeding or genetic engineering." These include living specimens and preserved specimens, as well as research displays that explore our post-natural dabblings. 

Modified curiosities in their collection include a Ribless Mouse Embyro and the BioSteel Goat, a particularly daring bit of science fiction that has been genetically altered to produce spider silk in its milk. Some of the displays focus on the post-natural wonders of New York, or the U.K., all of which will make you feel like you are in a museum of the future.

Most all museums focus on the past, the Center for PostNatural History is making sure that the future doesn't forget our present.  


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