Butterfly and beetle-pinning classes are a great introduction to taxidermy, says Salem. The Insect Asylum is full of outsider and vernacular art. It’s also a place for visitors to learn with ...

This story appears in the August 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not every feat of taxidermy qualifies as art. But as the art of taxidermy has endured and evolved, it has given form to ...

In fact, taxidermy is a painstaking ... and perpetuating the memory of a living creature in the name of science, art, or education is sometimes better than leaving it to decompose and be forgotten ...

The art of taxidermy has become fashionable again in recent years. But it has always been scientifically useful. Bird curator Hein van Grouw demonstrates how it's done.

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Taxidermy isn’t for the faint of heart. Widely considered an art form, the process of mounting animal skins can ...

The art of taxidermy has become fashionable again in recent years. But it has always been scientifically useful. Hein van Grouw, Senior Curator and expert taxidermist, shows us how bird taxidermy ...

With skin, antlers, plastic and paint, Ally brings a new kind of life back to the animals she recreates. “I think of taxidermy as a form of art and I’m very artistic. I like to draw a lot and for me, ...