Pop culture promotes many specific trends to the masses. You can see taxidermy in movies, fashion photo shoots, exhibitions, and tourist locations. In the US, the market offers numerous options ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bird curator Hein Van Grouw reveals how taxidermy is still bringing nature to life, centuries after the first animals were preserved. On the first floor of the Museum's Hintze Hall, 38 pheasants rest ...

The Brockhouse Collection was "one of the Midwest's most comprehensive collections of taxidermy," said the museum in the August 2023 statement. The Sioux Falls City Council unanimously approved a ...

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 ...