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Natural History Museums

Helensburgh Glowworm Tunnel.

25 Places to Learn to Love Creepy, Crawly Critters

From the art of spiders and glow of blue fireflies to bugs you can ride and insects you can eat.

Roxanne Hoorn July 19, 2024

Banff Park Museum

The oldest natural history museum in western Canada houses more than 5,000 vintage botanical and zoological specimens.

The materials to create the coyote (left) are commonly used for building stop motion puppets; a raccoon (right) looks lifelike after Binard mounts the hide on the form.

preserved specimens

You Can Take Home Dead Animals From This California Library

Check out camel skulls, starfish, or a lion’s pelt, just to know what it feels like.

Sarah Milligan November 29, 2023

Cochabamba, Bolivia

Alcide D'Orbigny Natural History Museum

Among fossils of creatures long since cast into oblivion, a once-single frog perseveres for his species.

Designed by English sculptor Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, models of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals were destined for Central Park's never-realized Paleozoic Museum.

The Bizarre True Story of Central Park’s Doomed Victorian Dinosaur Museum

For centuries, the infamous Boss Tweed was blamed for destroying its dino-models—but what really happened is even weirder.

Sarah Durn August 3, 2023

Punta Arenas, Chile

Museo de Historia Natural Río Seco

A gorgeous and extensive collaboration between biologists and artists, displaying skeletons and other animal remnants in lifelike poses.

natural history museums

Podcast: Luomus Spiders

The tale of a Scandinavian museum's 50-year infestation with Chilean recluse spiders.

The Podcast Team October 26, 2022

Male and female mastodon skeletons with footprints behind them.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Longest Known Mastodon Trackway

See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.

Keystone Gallery

Scott City, Kansas

Keystone Gallery

Home to fossils and other specimens from the Western Interior Seaway.

Nigel Larkin and Phil Rye work on the right whale skeleton.

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What It Takes to Dismantle and Move a 40-Foot Whale Skeleton

Including welding skills, knowledge of anatomy, and infinite patience.

Luna Shyr November 5, 2020

Jamestown, New York

Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History

This manor in the woods memorializes one of the greatest birders of a generation.

Zoological Roundels

Edinburgh, Scotland

Zoological Roundels

These sculptures of various animals adorn the building that houses one of the capital's least known museums.

Cotton, in front of an exhibition on hybridization.

The Black Taxidermist Who Made History at Chicago's Field Museum

A new exhibit celebrates the life and work of Carl Cotton.

Sabrina Imbler February 27, 2020

Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum

Chanute, Kansas

Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum

This museum houses artifacts from American adventurers and filmmakers Martin and Osa Johnson.

"Leaping Laelaps"-inspired mount of two Dryptosaurus skeletons

Trenton, New Jersey

Dryptosaurus Skeletal Mount

The way these carnivorous dinosaurs are posed is an homage to a classic work of paleoart.

Removing horns can damage a specimen, such as this one that held a real horn in the Museum im Ritterhaus in Offenburg, Germany.

natural history museums

In Museums, Real Rhino Horns Are an Endangered Species

Natural history collections are topping their specimens with replicas.

Jessica Leigh Hester November 22, 2019

Teams at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt began dismantling the mastodon in October 2019.

natural history museums

The Founding Fathers' Favorite Mastodon Is Coming Home for a Visit

Here's how you ship the skeleton of long-dead megafauna across the Atlantic.

Jessica Leigh Hester November 6, 2019

The taxidermy of "Alfred," a Western Lowland gorilla who ( in life ) once inhabited Bristol Zoo.

Bristol, England

Bristol Museum Natural History Collection

It houses a menagerie of wondrous taxidermy specimens from around the world, including the remains of a famous gorilla.