In 2015 the world renowned modern conceptual artist Danh Vo visited our warehouse in Urk with his team of collaborators and selected hundreds of kilograms of fossil material, including bones of Woolly Mammoths and whales. Vo, born in Vietnam in 1975, is interested in objects and other material, sometimes many thousands of years old, which he encounters through extensive travel and his unique network of connections. Vo arranges these objects in very original ways, which opens up new possibilities of seeing and interpretation. In this case he suspended our fossils from the ceiling of the Crystal Palace in the Parque del Retiro in Madrid, which was a spectacular sight and highly popular. The photos speak for themselves.
The Hidden Treasures of the North Sea
Other notable sales
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In 2019 the Historyland Museum in Hellevoetsluis, The Netherlands, purchased a complete skeleton of a Pleistocene Wisent. |
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In 2019 Wonthaggi Museum and Education Centre, Australia, purchased a skull of a baby Woolly Mammoth and several other big items. |
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In 2018 the Historyland Museum in Hellevoetsluis, The Netherlands, purchased a skeleton of a female Woolly Mammoth and a skeleton of a baby Woolly Mammoth. This Museum now owns a complete family of Woolly Mammoths |
| In 2017 a private collector purchased a skeleton of an Irish Elk |
| In 2016 the Masaï Gallery in Sprimont, Belgium, purchased two complete Woolly Mammoth tusks |
| In 2016 the Museum Vereniging Oud Lunteren in Lunteren, The Netherlands, purchased a life-size model of a baby Woolly Mammoth |
| In 2015 the world-renowned conceptual artist Danh Vo purchased a large amount of fossil material for his show ‘Banish the Faceless’ in Madrid |
| In 2015 the Historyland Museum in Hellevoetsluis, The Netherlands, purchased a complete skull of an Aurochs |
| In 2014 the Natural History Museum in Dortmund, Germany, purchased a skeleton of a female Woolly Mammoth |
| In 2014 the Archaeological Museum in Ioannina, Greece, purchased a skeleton of a Cave Bear and a reconstruction of the animal |
| In 2012 the Historyland Museum in Hellevoetsluis, The Netherlands, purchased a skeleton of a male Woolly Mammoth |
| In 2011 the Landesmuseum Württemberg in Stuttgart, Germany, purchased a large tusk of a Woolly Mammoth |
| In 2010 the Museum Jardin des Sciences in Dijon, France, purchased various Pleistocene fossils |
Notable loans
| In 2015 we loaned several Pleistocene fossils to the Zuiderzee Museum, Enkhuizen, The Netherlands, for their exhibition ‘Reis je Rijk’ |
| From 2010 to 2015 we loaned several Pleistocene fossils to the Museum Terra Maris, Oostkapelle, The Netherlands |
| From 2014 to 2015 we loaned several Pleistocene fossils to the Museum Erfgoedcentrum, Lelystad, The Netherlands, for their exhibition ‘Wildernis. Van IJstijd tot Nu’ |
| In 2014 we made a major donation of fossilized remains of early humans to the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, The Netherlands |
| In 2011 we loaned a model of a Sabre-tooth Tiger to the Fontanelle Nature Association Museum in Bellevue, USA |
| In 2011 we loaned several Pleistocene fossils to the Museum Schokland, The Netherlands, for their exhibition ‘IJstijdstrand’ |