Each week, we feature a worthy citizen science project or nature news segment from around the nation. This week, as we continue to feature projects to do from home, we bring you Fishing in the Past, a project from Zooniverse.
Fishing in the Past is a really cool project for science and art lovers alike that is easy enough for anyone to do. It’s essentially a virtual art museum that shares paintings from rijksmuseum and rkd that feature at least one fish. The artwork is painted by Dutch painters (some of whom are famous) from 1500 until 1700. Then, according to the website, you can “identify fish species on paintings, to gain information on biodiversity and commercial use of fish species.” It’s a window to the past that allows us to shape the future stories we tell and you can start HERE.