From July 26 to 30, Jason Housel is the Draper Natural History Museum’s artist-in-residence. Jason will be interacting with guests and creating displays that showcase the diversity of the Greater […]
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Museum Minute: A High School’s Taxidermy Collection Becomes a Museum’s
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 […]
Conservation of a taxidermy swallowtail butterfly
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 […]