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Battle Hill Museum of Natural History
Ones man's collection of the natural world's strange and unusual
Category Wonder Cabinets, Natural History
The Battle Hill Museum in Battle Creek features the collection of one man, Dennis Laughlin. The windowless building packs in more than 4,000 natural history specimens and wildlife mounts. Other exhibits include rocks, fossils, and shells.
But it is the curiosity cabinet side of this collection that earns it a special place in the Atlas. The Battle Hill Museum has a number of extraordinary specimens on display, from a mummified South American giant anteater to a hundreds-strong skull collection, as well as a number of medical anomalies such as a two-headed calf and a pig with two faces.
Laughlin mounted every skeleton and created every display in the museum himself, including the underground "Discovery Cave," which makes this incredible collection unique indeed. Laughlin even chopped up, boiled down, and articulated an elephant carcass which was left for him on his lawn.
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- Hours 1st Sun 1 - 5 pm, or by appt
- Address 231 Ida St., Battle Creek, Iowa, United States
On the east edge of town, at the intersection of Hwy 175/1st St. and Hwy L-51/Chestnut St., on the north side.
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