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New downtown Colorado Springs gallery features taxidermy works


Novis Mortem Collective isn’t your usual gallery.
Yes, beautiful and provocative art work hangs on the walls and inhabits the space, but it’s likely your gaze will be drawn to the vast array of glass domes housing all manner of the natural world. You’ll certainly spot the electric blue morpho butterflies from Costa Rica spreading their sizable wings. And the orange-colored stink bugs. Gray, papery dragonflies. Hornet’s nests. Giant flying black beetles that will have you reconsidering a move to wherever they exist. And tentacled octopuses the size of your hand quietly bobbing in water.
Don’t worry, though. All these creatures are no longer among the living. And to also ease your mind — none of them have been killed for the sole purpose of preservation and human gawking.

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