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Who Makes Them?
Museum taxidermist Frank Greenwell prepares our new specimens. But many of the animals you see here are now endangered, so Greenwell devotes most of his time to restoring old or damaged animal mounts.
He also creates dioramas to set Museum specimens in their natural habitats. For the armadillo case, he sculpted prickly pear cactus from wax, collected native grasses, and mounted two native birds.
A new diorama planned for the tiger will contain trees, dung, and footprints constructed from plaster casts Greenwell made on a recent trip to Nepal.
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