Art, Theaters and Museums

Munchen: German Museum of Hunting and Fishing

Deutsches Jagd und Fischereimuseum (German Museum of Hunting and Fishing) Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures . However alongside the sprawling collection of over 1,000 taxidermy beasts, the star attraction of the museum is the small selection of mammalian-avian monstrosities known as “wolpertingers.” A European cousin to the equally mythic American Jackalope, wolpertingers are rare chimerical creatures said to inhabit the dense Bavarian forests. In reality the novelty taxidermy are simply imaginative mashups of various small game and bird parts creating beasts that often resemble vermin with horns, fangs, and wings.

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