Experiments

Slice of Apple in Boiling Water
= Goes brown and a little soft from the heat, floats

Slice of Apple in cold water
= floats, day 1 remains the same

Cyclamen Leaf in cold water
= leaf floats with stem below, day 1 remains the same

Cyclamen flower in water, in freezer
=

Large flat mushroom in cold water
= floats, water turns red at the bottom, day 1 remains the same

5% formaldehyde solution

Damien Hursts well known work 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in The Mind of Someone Living' is like a large scale version of what I want to do. Where Hurst used Formaldehyde solution for the preservation of his shark however due to the dangers to health it can cause I will not be experimenting with it. (pictured above also is the guppy version of Hursts work created by him for the Reflex Art Gallery Miniature Museum)
Instead I shall experiment with various ways of displaying fruits, vegetables, flowers and leaves, and decide which looks most like an alien museum display.

Incompatible with Life

Lena Herzog photographed the "Lost Souls", unborn foetuses and newborns who's muations meant they didn't survive and were preserved at the Narrenturm, Austria.

http://www.lenaherzog.com/press/incompatible-life

What if i presented specimens in a similar way except they weren't deformed or alien, they were just everyday things? 

Initial Thoughts

Introduction