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The Hidden Treasures of the North Sea

In 2015 the world renowned modern conceptual artist Danh Vo visited our warehouse in Urk with his team of collaborators and selected hundreds of kilograms of fossil material, including bones of Woolly Mammoths and whales. Vo, born in Vietnam in 1975, is interested in objects and other material, sometimes many thousands of years old, which he encounters through extensive travel and his unique network of connections. Vo arranges these objects in very original ways, which opens up new possibilities of seeing and interpretation. In this case he suspended our fossils from the ceiling of the Crystal Palace in the Parque del Retiro in Madrid, which was a spectacular sight and highly popular. The photos speak for themselves.




Other notable sales

In 2019 the Historyland Museum in Hellevoetsluis, The Netherlands, purchased a complete skeleton of a Pleistocene Wisent.

In 2019 Wonthaggi Museum and Education Centre, Australia, purchased a skull of a baby Woolly Mammoth and several other big items.

In 2018 the Historyland Museum in Hellevoetsluis, The Netherlands, purchased a skeleton of a female Woolly Mammoth and a skeleton of a baby Woolly Mammoth. This Museum now owns a complete family of Woolly Mammoths

In 2017 a private collector purchased a skeleton of an Irish Elk
In 2016 the Masaï Gallery in Sprimont, Belgium, purchased two complete Woolly Mammoth tusks
In 2016 the Museum Vereniging Oud Lunteren in Lunteren, The Netherlands, purchased a life-size model of a baby Woolly Mammoth
In 2015 the world-renowned conceptual artist Danh Vo purchased a large amount of fossil material for his show ‘Banish the Faceless’ in Madrid
In 2015 the Historyland Museum in Hellevoetsluis, The Netherlands, purchased a complete skull of an Aurochs
In 2014 the Natural History Museum in Dortmund, Germany, purchased a skeleton of a female Woolly Mammoth
In 2014 the Archaeological Museum in Ioannina, Greece, purchased a skeleton of a Cave Bear and a reconstruction of the animal
In 2012 the Historyland Museum in Hellevoetsluis, The Netherlands, purchased a skeleton of a male Woolly Mammoth
In 2011 the Landesmuseum Württemberg in Stuttgart, Germany, purchased a large tusk of a Woolly Mammoth
In 2010 the Museum Jardin des Sciences in Dijon, France, purchased various Pleistocene fossils

Notable loans

In 2015 we loaned several Pleistocene fossils to the Zuiderzee Museum, Enkhuizen, The Netherlands, for their exhibition ‘Reis je Rijk’
From 2010 to 2015 we loaned several Pleistocene fossils to the Museum Terra Maris, Oostkapelle, The Netherlands
From 2014 to 2015 we loaned several Pleistocene fossils to the Museum Erfgoedcentrum, Lelystad, The Netherlands, for their exhibition ‘Wildernis. Van IJstijd tot Nu’
In 2014 we made a major donation of fossilized remains of early humans to the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, The Netherlands
In 2011 we loaned a model of a Sabre-tooth Tiger to the Fontanelle Nature Association Museum in Bellevue, USA
In 2011 we loaned several Pleistocene fossils to the Museum Schokland, The Netherlands, for their exhibition ‘IJstijdstrand’

 

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