sees taxidermy displays as part of a broader historical arc of how museum culture changed around the turn of the 19th century. At the time, museums catered mainly to upper class visitors ...

Early museums displayed taxidermy in serried ranks for the purposes of comparative morphology, but as the nineteenth century moved towards its close, taxidermists were increasingly interested in ...

Tables throughout Ireland are now well rid of plump turkeys for another year, but stuffed birds – and other creatures – of a very different kind are among the most sought after items in ...

Exotic animal visitors to Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries were more frequently ... of nature for their fantastic faults. Taxidermy was just another way to interpret biology, and morphed ...