KUCHING: In conjunction with International Museum Day 2019, the Sarawak Museum Department is organising a Taxidermy workshop (preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of animals with lifelike effect) on July 27-28 at the Natural History Museum, Jalan Tun Abang Haji Openg.
The workshop aims to provide an opportunity to the public to learn and understand the complexity of taxidermy.
Through this workshop, the department wishes to create a record in the Malaysia Book of Records with the longest non-stop taxidermy that would last 24 hours. The mounting process of one specimen will take four hours to complete.
Other than that, casting of fish species will also be conducted during the workshop. This is to show participants the different methods used in taxidermy.
Taxidermy is important to preserve specimens for research and study purposes as well as for the future generation to know of the specimen’s existence in Sarawak.
It involves the process of cleaning, preserving and filling the skins of dead specimens with special materials, chemicals and tools.
Animals are mounted and displayed in a realistic manner to make them look natural and lively.
