Hunting and Taxidermy

Grande Galerie de l'Évolution

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals

A procession of taxidermy animals strides down the center of the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, while thousands of other specimens fill the four floors of the natural history museum. Birds and... »

Museums and Collections, Natural History, Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy | Edited by allison

Trundle Manor: House of Oddities

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures tucked into a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood

Trundle Manor looks, from the outside, like any other house in the neighborhood of Swissvale near Pittsburgh - except for the coffin on the porch. But the inside is filled with a wide assortment... »

Museums and Collections, Wonder Cabinets, Outsider Art, Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy, Miniatures, Memento Mori, Purveyors of Curiosities, Eccentric Homes | Edited by VonMinx and Nicholas Jackson

Tsavo Man Eaters

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers

"On reaching the spot where the body had been devoured, a dreadful spectacle presented itself. The ground all round was covered with blood and morsels of flesh and bones, but the unfortunate... »

Fascinating Fauna, Hunting and Taxidermy, Memento Mori, Dead Explorers | Edited by Annetta

Gopher Hole Museum

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

About the size of an RV, Torrington Gopher Hole Museum features stuffed gophers (actually, "Richardson's Ground Squirrels) posed to resemble the townspeople. Exhibits include gophers dressed as a... »

Outsider Art, Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy, Mummies | Edited by AquilaRush, rboyle and others

Havre de Grace Decoy Museum

The Decoy Capital of the World

Located on the banks of the historic Susquehanna Flats, the Havre de Grace Decoy Museum houses a particular art form, one that most folks probably don't spend much time contemplating: fake birds.... »

Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy, Retro-Tech | Edited by A Facebook user and Dylan

Zoological Museum

The Natural History Museum that time forgot

The Zoological Museum, housed within the Babes-Bolyai University, can be rather difficult to locate. Rickety metal spiral staircases, long halls, unmarked doors: it can all be rather confusing.... »

Natural History, Hunting and Taxidermy | Edited by michelle and Dylan

North Korea's International Friendship Exhibition Hall

A bizarre collection of gifts to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il from the despots of the world

If you are a iron-fisted despot, or terrorist organization, what do you get another tyrannical dictator as a gift? It would seem, judging from North Korea's "International Friendship Exhibition... »

Museums and Collections, Unique Collections, Hunting and Taxidermy, Cultures and Civilizations , Rites and Rituals, Follies and Grottoes | Edited by Dylan

Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature

A French museum dedicated to the art of hunting

Housed in the 17th century Hotel de Guenegaud in Le Marais, The Museum of Hunting and Nature is noted for its room of taxidermy trophies and its many paintings and tapestries depicting the art of... »

Natural History, Hunting and Taxidermy | Edited by Josh, holling and others

Bagley Wildlife Museum

The Largest Little Museum in the Northwest

The Bagley Wildlife Museum is a jam-packed ark of a place, an extravagant monument to nature's fertility. This collection long ago outgrew the front window of a shoe store and now occupies half of... »

Hunting and Taxidermy | Edited by MattB, Dylan and others

Abita Mystery House

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator

John Preble, a Louisiana painter, has picked up just about every rock, bottle, and license plate he has passed. Inspired by the Tinkertown Museum in New Mexico, he put it all together in the Abita... »

Outsider Art, Hunting and Taxidermy, Outsider Architecture | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, michelle and 2 others

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