Places To See Taxidermy
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You can visit stuffed animals and birds at museums all around the UK. From eagles to elephants, polar bears to zebras... the most unusual creatures pop up all over the place. Here are just a few of our favourites: This beautiful golden eagle lives at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Scotland, along with a great auk and an elephant called Sir Roger. © Glasgow City Council Museums.
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The Booth Museum of Natural History in Brighton is amazing. It has hundreds of British birds shown off in diorama. It's one of the most famous Victorian taxidermy collections in Britain.
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Ipswich Museum in Suffolk also has a spectacular collection of British birds from Victorian times. They have a massive 235 cases containing 770 specimens of 197 different species!
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The Powell-Cotton Museum in Kent is crammed with African mammals. They were collected by Major Powell-Cotton, a Victorian adventurer who had 40 animals named after him! © Powelll-Cotton Museum
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The Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum is a treasure trove of oddities - aardvarks, pangolins, a duck-billed platypus, a leathery turtle, two giant snakes and 88 dogs... and that's just for starters! © The Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum.
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The Hutchings family, of Aberystwyth, were some of the best taxidermists in Britain. You can see a collection of their work, just like the ones in this picture, at Ceredigion Museum in Wales.
© Ceredigion Museum
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