@frost They did have a fair number of older and not necessarily that good taxidermy mounts. To the museum's credit, there's only one area (which seems to be part of a back area which'd have study skins etc) which is oh hey, dead animals. The rest of the dead animals were contextualized as "look, here's how evolution is this big sprawling mess and different critters fit it in different ways" or "this is local to Puget Sound."
@Leucrotta
I appreciate neat skulls. Got a replica rough toothed dolphin skull, myself.
@ziphi this place had so much awesome stuff!
@Leucrotta That sounds cool!
...and less creepy than the stuffed corpses I was expecting. Our museum growing up had those. (And it was free all the time. Paid museums are still a weird concept to us.)