You may have seen the image of a raggedy werewolf standing in a glass case recently. You may have also wondered what it is and where it came from. First, the display is located in Denmark at the Museum Lolland-Falster in their Museum Obscura exhibit. What makes this interesting is that the exhibit was discovered by accident in 2017 behind a bookcase during renovations to the main museum.
More of an office than a showroom, it contains artifacts curated by Cornelius SC Rödders which is made up of the occult and the supernatural. The taxidermy werewolf is just one of the many oddities collected by Rödders.
“Rödder established a ‘dark’ collection with a secret entrance in his house, where he kept his vampire skeleton, collection of fairies, and other supernatural specimens. This secret collection was nearly lost, until in 2017 the Museum Obscurum rediscovered a series of crates behind a locked door in a forgotten room.
The museum reconstructed Rödder’s home and put his unusual collection on display in the study. From a werewolf to a stuffed platypus to the skull of the Forest Child, there are many mysterious artifacts to peruse, both mythological and otherwise. The visitor is gently challenged with stranger and stranger specimens and faced with the question: What is real, and what is fake?”
Not much is known about the preserved lycanthrope. Either the museum wants to continue the mystery or there really is no info about how Rödder acquired the piece. In their photo cache of items they describe the beast as a “Werewoman [i.e. female werewolf] which starved to death age 15”.
If you can’t get to Denmark to see the creature for yourself, take a look at the video above and let Jez and Tom take you on a tour throughout this strange collection of the weird.
