
There is a welcoming quietness as you step into the storeroom of the entomology section of the Natural History Museum in London. You instantly breathe in a familiar smell – old wooden drawers and preserving chemicals – and see endless rows of metal cabinets, punctuated by posters with brightly magnified metallic forms. Upstairs, there is [...]
Childhood Memories of Taxidermy: Arthur, the Siberian Brown Bear, Haslemere Educational Museum, Surrey
Submitted by: Laxmi Wadher
Childhood Memories of Taxidermy: Arthur, the Siberian Brown Bear, Haslemere Educational Museum, Surrey In the galleries there was a bear. But the bear wasn’t a real bear but the skin was a real bear’s skin but they stuffed the bear. The animals up on the wall they were dead then the men take the [...]