[Nhcoll-l] New home for deaccessioned taxidermy

[Carson Moore]

Greetings,

We were formerly a natural history museum, but after a few re-brandings we no longer collect and have a largely unmanaged collection. I'm going through the process of deaccessioning nearly our entire collection and trying to re-home our specimens, namely our taxidermy at this time. I've reached out to our state special agent for USFWS (we are based in the U.S.) but have received no word in some time. I have been able to re-home some to local State Parks, but we have non-local, and African taxidermy mounts that would not fit with them. We have mineralogy and invertebrate collections as well, but my main concern is large objects that take up a lot of space. Does anyone know of a resource to list deaccessioned objects for other institutions? Is this the best place for that?

Any help is appreciated,

Carson Moore (She/Her)
Exhibits and Collections Manager
cmoore at kaleideum.org
336-757-6544


Kaleideum

400 W. Hanes Mill Road

Winston-Salem, NC 27105

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