Brookside Zoo News Today

Balto has remained at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History since his death in 1933. He was one of 13 dogs to bring lifesaving diphtheria medicine to Nome, Alaska, in 1925 — what was called "The Serum Run."

In the 1800s, men gathered at a small Cleveland club called the Ark, planting just a seed of what’s now the city’s natural history museum.