Raymond Bandar and His Bone Palace

Raymond Bandar, an artist, retired teacher, naturalist and a member of the California Academy of Sciences, created a “Bone Palace“ with his natural history collection made up close to 7,000 skulls and skeletons. Bandar’s Bone Palace has the spirit of eighteenth and 19th century naturalist’ Cabinets of Curiosities. In this video Bandar explains his motivation for collecting and preparing the specimens and shares antidotes about where he got individual specimens. The video ends showing him in action collection specimens that he is permitted to do under state and federal law in Northern California. His collection is a great asset for generations to come. The “Bone Palace“ is a work of genius by a man who defies classification. Please check out two photo books I did on Bandar and his collection- In black and white and one in color-