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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">It sounds like a poor excuse to close the museum to me. I bet the zoo that runs it just didn’t want to deal with being in the museum business.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Does anyone here think airborne chemicals from decades-old taxidermy could concentrate to high enough levels in a museum to present a risk to the visiting public, or for that matter staff? Is there a threshold
for levels and what do you look for?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I don’t think this is like lead levels in an indoors shooting range, and it’s not like arsenic is aerosolizing. I’m very curious as to what exactly they’re detecting in the air and what the levels are, and what
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-ligatures:none">From:</span></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none"> Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Opitz, Cindy E<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 22, 2023 11:45 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [Nhcoll-l] Delbridge MNH closing over chemical concerns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Recently announced: The closure of the Delbridge MNH in South Dakota, “over concerns that chemicals in its taxidermy collection could endanger visitors and staff,” and plans to decommission the
collection and dispose of the taxidermy mounts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Article:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/apnews.com/article/south-dakota-taxidermy-natural-history-museum-closed-chemicals-8705995a1bf8a45ceb65174e5821308a__;!!J30X0ZrnC1oQtbA!LaSfbbCKGblX9nhWTWS736zGUe4Yv94Gi4T_5IiWN3reToKdqv7LnDZijl99BhmuSy4KxE7vL51iNIEpTCeDLQcvoul9DeXvug$">https://apnews.com/article/south-dakota-taxidermy-natural-history-museum-closed-chemicals-8705995a1bf8a45ceb65174e5821308a</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Video featuring the taxidermy mounts:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx--6nZuLnQ__;!!J30X0ZrnC1oQtbA!LaSfbbCKGblX9nhWTWS736zGUe4Yv94Gi4T_5IiWN3reToKdqv7LnDZijl99BhmuSy4KxE7vL51iNIEpTCeDLQcvoumbtO6DnQ$">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx--6nZuLnQ</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515;mso-ligatures:none">Cindy Opitz </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515;mso-ligatures:none">(she/her)<br>
Director of Research Collections<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515;mso-ligatures:none">Museum of Natural History and Old Capitol Museum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515;mso-ligatures:none">Instructor, Museum Studies Certificate Program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515;mso-ligatures:none">The University of Iowa<br>
11 Macbride Hall, Iowa City, Iowa 52242<br>
Office: 319.335.0481</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#201F1E;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:cindy-opitz@uiowa.edu">cindy-opitz@uiowa.edu</a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#151515;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/mnh.uiowa.edu/__;!!J30X0ZrnC1oQtbA!LaSfbbCKGblX9nhWTWS736zGUe4Yv94Gi4T_5IiWN3reToKdqv7LnDZijl99BhmuSy4KxE7vL51iNIEpTCeDLQcvoum0IZ_V-w$" target="_blank">mnh.uiowa.edu,</a>
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