Museums can then make adjustments where needed ... but Mr. Sweets dreams of turning it into an artists’ bazaar, perhaps with taxidermy mounts arrayed throughout: the elephant here, the giraffe ...

Zoo and city officials decided to close the museum on Aug. 17 after learning the results from recent tests. Arsenic has been detected in other taxidermy mounts in the U.S. and Europe. Arsenic is ...

The museum was promptly shut down to the public ... dispose of historic and scientifically valuable taxidermy mounts, and move mounts of endangered species from public display to closed storage ...

(Delbridge Museum of Natural History via AP ... with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to safely dispose of the taxidermy mounts, a process that is expected to take several months.

and Tim recalls running up and down the halls of the Natural History Museum as a young child. His very first taxidermy mount was a skunk, which he completed using book guides at the tender age of 10.

changed the purpose of taxidermy—it inspired other taxidermists to aim for accuracy in their mounts, too. 9. Many dioramas at natural history museums show animals in painstakingly recreated ...

SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — A longtime museum consultant in Sioux Falls says the city council made the right choice in giving the Delbridge Museum’s taxidermy mounts to three out-of-state non ...