Tour Report: Zoological Museum "Animal House"

We also paid another visit to the third spot on our 2019 Christmas tour during the repeat tour in January 2020. And that was a good thing, because relatively soon afterwards there was a fire in one of the buildings, which meant that the location was literally “burnt”.

Sure - it's not an extremely spectacular place, but a zoological museum with an associated taxidermist is not something you see very often. What's more, I had only taken photos with my cell phone on my first visit, so I wanted to take the opportunity to shoot a few more pictures with the big camera.

It was getting towards the afternoon, but luckily the walk wasn't too far, so we still had enough daylight. Once again, we were able to park right next to the location and were completely undisturbed while we looked at everything in peace. I used the time to photograph a few details that I had missed the first time.

In the meantime, I had researched the history of the place and it was a bit unfortunate that the exhibits were no longer there - by all accounts, there were some " wild" things there.

In any case, it was a good end to a successful tour!

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Tour Report: Zoological Museum "Animal House"

The last location we explored on our 2019 Christmas tour of Denmark was an abandoned zoological museum. I had been tipped off about this place and told that there wasn't much left to see.

We found the location on a lonely country road in the middle of Denmark. There was one house on each side of the road. As there were no neighbors in the vicinity, we parked directly on site.

We first took a look at the smaller of the two buildings. Hanging out of an open window was a pelt that had probably once belonged to a badger. The door was open so that we could easily enter the house.

Inside, we found all sorts of things: animal skins and bones, wood, straw, jars of chemicals - and business documents. These showed that a taxidermist had worked in the house. He apparently not only made the specimens for the zoological museum, but also for private customers.

The lion we found was particularly impressive. The fur was on the first floor, but in the attic we found the almost complete frame made of wire and straw.

Equally interesting were the many empty jars of chemicals, mostly phenol and arsenic trioxide. Both are or were used in embalming and taxidermy.

After we had fully explored the taxidermist's house, we simply walked across the street. The building opposite housed the so-called zoological museum.

Unfortunately, there wasn't much left to see there because, on the one hand, a large part of the collection was sold after the museum was closed and, on the other hand, the vandals or local teenagers have of course already struck.

So the “cages” were empty with the exception of a few decorations - but you could still see that someone had obviously put a lot of effort into the museum's layout.

As it was already relatively late in the afternoon, I only took my cell phone with me to take photos. But I should be back a few weeks later for another visit, so stay tuned!

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