Kenosha, Wisconsin: Butchering a Mammoth
A life-size wax diorama shows prehistoric Americans yanking yummy organs and meat out of a dead mammoth.Kenosha Public Museum
- Address:
- 5500 1st Ave., Kenosha, WI
- Directions:
- Kenosha Public Museum. On the lakefront (east edge of the city) on 1st Ave. just north of 56th St.
- Hours:
- Su-M 12-5, T-Sa 9-5; off-season closed M (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 262-653-4140
- Admission:
- Free
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
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Mammoth Dissection Life-sized mammoth harvesting display. Yuck. Very nice museum (nice lake view) and free.
[Cory Lenger, 08/20/2012]Nearby Offbeat Places
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Farmer Frank Schaefer found the mammoth while digging a drainage ditch. According to the museum, it's "the oldest known mammoth believed to have been butchered by humans with tools east of the Mississippi River." The diorama depicts the butchering.