Mourning the Mounted: An Analysis of the Taxidermy Exhibition Dead Animals with a Story

This article analyzes the taxidermy exhibition Dead Animals with a Story located in the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam simply boho classroom in order to discover the subversive potentiality of taxidermy.Through granting the taxidermy animals subjectivity, by recognizing human and non-human kinship, and by creating accountability towards animal suffering, Dead Animals with a Story sets the stage for the animals to be deemed grievable.This points to the potential of the exhibition to reshape pre-established social and cultural boundaries between the human and the animal, which becomes ever so important in a world marked by extinction luau thank you cards and loss.