The National Museum of Ireland – Natural History, sometimes called the Dead Zoo, a branch of the National Museum of Ireland, is housed on Merrion Street in Dublin, Ireland. The museum was built in 1856 for parts of the collection of the Royal Dublin Society and the building and collection were later passed to the State.
Entrance to the museum
The giant Irish deer in the Irish Room on the ground floor
A view from the lower section of the first floor
Galleries, closed 2007, and as of late 2023 still not open for visitors
Williams & Son, Dublin
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Williams & Son, Dublin was a taxidermy firm which operated in Dublin, Ireland from the late 1860s to the early 1940s.
Williams & Son's shop at 2 Dame Street in 1908
Taxidermy diorama of a red fox vixen with four cubs (1910) in the Natural History Museum, Dublin
Pair of European Robins nesting in a tin can (1911) in the Natural History Museum, Dublin