Colby Gun & Trophy Room at the Boston Museum of Science

[Joe G]

Anybody have any information about this? I did a forum search and came up dry.

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Re-creation of Colonel Francis T. Colby's den in Hamilton, Massachusetts.
• Kid Friendly

 

[MisterHappy]

link to the MOS website:

http://www.mos.org/exhibits_shows/current_exhibits&d=1274

Lookee, no touchee, from outside.

Not sure where I heard it, but IIRC "Extra special" events would get the door open.

I've wanted to get in there since I was 8!

 

[Marcus5aurelius]

Yea, I've been there (I didn't know it existed until my uncle told me about it and I had to find it, it's a little off the main the path). There's some awesome stuff in the collection, but they don't let you go inside the room anymore, you can only look through this little window which is kinda depressing

 

[Titan]

From the article:

The majority of the items in this room were collected between 1900-45, when big game hunters like Teddy Roosevelt first began to understand the importance of preserving the wilderness for future generations. Although unusual from a modern perspective, this room of mounted heads and pelts represents the roots of current attitudes toward ecology and conservation.

So apparently it's not there to admire...it's there to scare the children into conservation!