Natural history museum bags electrifying new addition to collection January 13, 2021 The stone marten which plunged much of the Achterhoek in Gelderland into darkness on Tuesday morning by making its way into an electricity substation, killing itself in the event, has joined the Rotterdam Natuurhistorisch museum’s collection of ‘Dead animals with a story’. No one knows how the animal managed to get into the substation but once inside it short circuited three 10,000 volt transformers, leaving the inhabitants of Borculo, Ruurlo, Mariënvelde, Beltrum and Neede in the dark for some hours. It did not take museum curator Bram Langeveld long to scoop up the animal for the museum’s collection where, once out of the museum fridge and prepared, it will join other hapless victims of electrical and other mishaps.