American Natural Roadkill Museum

Seriously! While walking through the American Natural History Museum in New York we came across the following exhibit. I really am not sure of its purpose. The rest of the museum has very tasteful and delicately laid out displays of all manner of animals from around the world, all in various mid-action poses. They have endless halls of reconstructed dinosaur fossils, some reaching 10 meters or more into the air. They have a wonderful temporary display of mythical beasts and creatures. They have whole halls showing time lines that span trillions of years in the evolution of the creatures on our planet. And then you come across this. You have to start asking questions when you see displays in a premier national museum of what in my mind is clearly roadkill!