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Unfortunately, this is reminiscent of what happened at the Smithsonian’s natural history museum when they prepared a new hall of mammals. Accounts I’ve read described how they sifted through the old mounts from prior exhibits, kept some, spliced some together
to get the “best” mounts, and then trashed the remainder.
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<div dir="ltr"> Very unfortunate. It seems they were poorly prepared to accept and exhibit this sort of collection, and that tended to accelerate condition issues.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">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
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