Can a mushroom make music? Devon exhibition explores ‘cultural world’ of fungi
The Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter is hosting an exhibition titled 'Living Labyrinths' that explores the cultural and scientific significance of fungi. The show features soundscapes created from fungal electricity and historical mycological artifacts.
Why it matters
The exhibition bridges the gap between science and art, reflecting a growing public interest in mycology and the natural world.
Dried fungi from the museum archive. Dried fungi from the museum archive. Fungi Can a mushroom make music? Devon exhibition explores ‘cultural world’ of fungi Exeter museum to host DJ’s ‘collaboration’ with woodland fungi and artist’s map of her own body’s mycobiome
Prefer the Guardian on Google For one of the installations, a musician spent hours in woodland “collaborating” with fungi to create a soundscape inspired by the electricity they emit.
Another is a kinetic sculpture of an extinct fungus that honours Beatrix Potter not for her tales of mischievous rabbits but for her lesser-known skills as a mycologist – a fungi expert.
These are just two of the exhibits playing starring roles in a rather extraordinary contemporary art show called Living Labyrinths , at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) in Exeter, aiming to celebrate the “cultural world” of fungi.
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