<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Dear Mackenzie,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Can I ask how you store the trophies? Here at Naturalis we have introduced a very simple system since our last collection move. We installed fences along several walls of our collection depot in order to hang all the trophies. In this way we could store all these specimen over 60 m2 of fence. I've included a picture just to give you an idea.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Met vriendelijke groet/Kind regards,<br><br>Pepijn Kamminga<br>Senior collection manager Birds & Mammals<br>Naturalis Biodiversity Center</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op do 27 jul. 2023 19:24 schreef Kirchner-Smith, Mackenzie <<a href="mailto:Mackenzie.Kirchner-Smith@sbcm.sbcounty.gov" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Mackenzie.Kirchner-Smith@sbcm.sbcounty.gov</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">My museum is facing a bit of a storage dilemma that has come up very suddenly. Our offsite storage facility, which we rent, is going to be doubling in monthly price over the course of the next year, and only getting worse from there. Being
a small museum with a limited budget, we can’t afford to stay in the facility so we will be working towards finding alternative solutions. Some of the objects currently being stored at our offsite facility are dozens of African mammal heads, mounted in the
trophy style, including wildebeest, gemsbok , and rhinos just to name a few. <u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In addition to looking for new ways to store these, we are also hoping we can downsize the number of items being stored offsite. Our mission has shifted from a global focus to a more local one, and being located in California, these African
mammals are not likely to ever be put on display at our museum. As far as we know, all these animals were collected by the museum in the 1970’s on a collecting trip to Africa or were donated to us throughout the years. For any other museums out there that
have large African mammals, especially the highly endangered ones, what have you done to store/downsize your collection? We would prefer anything we can to be transferred over to another institution but our attempts to find interested institutions have not
been fruitful so far. And if they are in very bad condition, what is the ethical and legal process for potentially disposing of such specimens?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your insight, and if any institutions who see this email are interested in doing a transfer of any of these specimens, please reach out to me and I can provide a list of all that we have.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#255aa8">Mackenzie Kirchner-Smith</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#255aa8"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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commonly referred to as the Serrano people, which, in the contemporary era, are represented by two federally</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#255aa8">‐</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#255aa8">recognized
tribes: the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and Morongo Band of Mission Indians. We also acknowledge that in the historic era other tribal communities and European settlers intersected with Serrano peoples in these spaces. Our histories and stories are
intertwined in this space, and by sharing them in culturally</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#255aa8">‐</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#255aa8">appropriate
ways and co-stewarding collections, we hope to honor and celebrate our indigenous neighbors and partners. We also seek to offer an accurate, clear and thorough picture of this region’s complicated past and create a shared vision for the future that is mutually</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif;color:#255aa8">‐</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#255aa8">beneficial
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