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Can an object be artistic and scientific at the same time? Can art have a place in science museums? Why do museum object labels matter? These questions are the subject of this post, which was prompted by a visit I made recently to the Bell Pettigrew Museum at the University of St Andrews, in Scotland. The Bell Pettigrew is the University’s zoology museum: “a rare survival of a Victorian teaching museum, and wonderfully atmospheric”, according to their website.  It’s a small,