Developed by Bentley Crudgington, Robert Kirk and Dmitriy Myelnikov.
Web construction and 3D design by Nikomus Games.
This exhibition was made possible by funding from the Wellcome Trust as part of the ‘Animal Research Nexus’ Collaborative Award (grant no. 205393). We wish to thank our Animal Research Nexus colleagues for the multiple conversations about and feedback on this project.
We are grateful to the anonymised animal technicians for sharing their memories with us. We wish to thank Huw Golledge (UFAW), Rose Hurlbut (The Jackson Laboratory), Maria Kamper and Mike Addelman (University of Manchester) for assistance with image permissions. We also wish to thank Ken Applebee for general support with the project.
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