The Milwaukee Public Museum
The history of the museum on their site states:
"The tradition of innovative exhibits, dubbed "The Milwaukee Style," began with the work of Carl Akeley, the "father" of modern taxidermy who started his career in Milwaukee. Although others had included props and backgrounds in cases holding taxidermy specimens, Akeley's muskrat colony, completed in 1890, is considered the museum world's first total habitat diorama."
On their website, be sure to check out their "Exhibitions" section. I particularly love the section entitled "Sense of wonder" which features "More than 1,000 rarely seen specimens from the Museum's collection of 6 million are displayed, ranging in size from a pine cone seed to a 36-foot-long skeleton of a Humpback Whale."
The Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury, Vt.
John and I visited the Fairbanks Museum in 2004, and it was as if it hadn't been touched in 100 years. A fantastic example of Victorian curiosity, collecting and museum exhibition of that era.
On our trip to St. Johnsbury, we also visited The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum a library and art gallery.
The Field Museum of Chicago
This was once the mecca of museums, and in part still remains so. Though many collections have given way to the 'discovery museum' style of curation.
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