About 15 years after the burning of the White Sulfur Well Hotel, the Laughlin family rebuilt the hotel with brick and ...

However, Akeley was not the only pioneering taxidermist in Field Museum history; L. L. Walters, at the Museum for forty-three years beginning in 1911, perfected new techniques to prepare animals, such ...

After this delicate preservation process, the mummy was ready for the ceremonial burial that would usher its former host to the afterlife. Museum open daily, 9am-5pm, last entry 4pm. Closed on ...