The Draper Natural History Museum was founded in 1998. The founding curator, Dr. Charles Preston, had a surprise collection waiting for him when he arrived. “I was told of a group of taxidermist specimen that were somewhere in the vaults of the museum,” recalled Preston. “There were a couple hundred taxidermy birds and mammals that […]
This is a report from conservation intern, Laura Siegfried: Visitors to the Draper Natural History Museum may remember the sculpture, at the bottom of the spiral ramp, of a taxidermy mountain lion and a carved wooden elk head. The artists of this piece are Ray Hatfield, Dwayne Johnson, and Duane Mittlieder of Nature’s Design Taxidermy. […]