Secrets of the Royal Alberta Museum

Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman had a backroom tour of the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, Alberta where he perused a natural history collection of nearly 70,000 items donated by a generous oilman and lawyer. Loren posted snapshots of his tour over at Cryptomundo. From Loren's post:

Walls were covered with trophy heads and taxidermy items were on several rows of shelves. Over in the corner, one might find a huge Galapagos tortoise. Turn around, look under a sheet of plastic, and there’s a baby musk ox.

Backrooms of the Royal Alberta Museum (Cryptomundo)

Previously on BB:
• Richard Banres's "Animal Logic" photography
• Justine Cooper's photos of the American Museum of Natural History

[#1 posted by clockwork , July 30, 2008 4:09 PM]

I sometimes end up in the loading dock of the RAM for work purposes. The first time I went there I was greeted by two stuffed black bears... it was very unnerving unloading the truck with those lifeless beasts staring at me from the corner of the dock.

[#2 posted by California Will , July 30, 2008 5:33 PM]

Across the river, the University of Alberta also has an amazing, probably better zoology collection. If one goes into the zoology museum there, one would see a a stuffed coyote that has an exceptionally short torso, so that the shoulder and hip nearly meet. This is not a product of taxidermist humor but was actually a developmental anomaly that the animal lived with. Now that is something that belongs on Cryptomundo!