The Sioux Falls mayor announced a “strategic pause” in the city’s plans to ditch an arsenic-contaminated menagerie of more than 150 taxidermy animals that fill a now-closed natural history museum at the state’s largest zoo
The Sioux Falls mayor announced a “strategic pause” Friday in the city’s plans to ditch an arsenic-contaminated menagerie of more than 150 taxidermy animals that fill a now-closed natural history museum at the state’s largest zoo.
“We collaborated with City Council leadership on this strategic pause to bring a clear plan forward that identifies what will happen to each specimen,” he said. Following his death in 1978 and the subsequent closure of the store, his friend, C.J. Delbridge, snapped the collection up for $550,000 and donated it to the city.
The initial donation agreement, obtained by The Associated Press through a records request, said the collection needed to be kept behind glass or a suitable material to prevent touching. City officials insisted at last week’s meeting that the barriers in place at the museum complied, but they also blamed some of the taxidermy damage to visitors ignoring signs and touching the mounts.
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