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Yahoo
26-02-2025
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Last hope for keeping the Brockhouse animals in SF
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A group has come forward in hopes of keeping the Brockhouse taxidermy collection once housed in the Delbridge Museum in Sioux Falls. Since the 1980s, the Delbridge Museum has helped families create memories. Puppies not abandoned outdoors, say Sioux Falls PD 'All my kids growing up, they love coming here. And the museum itself. You know, when I go through it, I remember seeing all the little kids and giggling and laughing and pointing that stuff,' Jason Haack said. But kids haven't been able to see the animals since 2023, when city leaders closed the museum, saying arsenic had been found in the mounts. The Sioux Falls City Council recently voted to gift the Brockhouse collection to three out-of-state nonprofits. But not everyone supports that decision. 'We're trying to get signatures to get this on the ballot for people, for people in Sioux Falls to vote on it. We feel that what the city fathers did is not right,' Glenn Charles Philips said. 'I've gone door to door getting signatures. And everybody is for keeping them in Sioux Falls. They can't understand what our city fathers were doing,' Philips said. While the city council received the Delbridge family's support in the decision to donate the mounts, those behind the petition drive still believe the collection should remain in Sioux Falls. 'There's not a mount like this throughout the whole United States. Nobody has a complete one like this. That's why I can't understand why the mayor and the city council wants to get rid of them,' Philips said. 'They're good for education. They're good for the kids. You're good for the future. And they don't understand how they can actually build something and actually make it a very lucrative endeavor,' Haack said. The group has until March 6 to collect 7,552 signatures. Click here for more information on the Save the Delbridge/Brockhouse Animals. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
11-02-2025
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A look back at Brockhouse saga ahead of vote
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Tuesday, the Sioux Falls City Council will decide whether to send about two-thirds of the Brockhouse Collection to the University of Notre Dame Museum of Biodiversity. On August 17, 2023, the Great Plains Zoo announced the closure of the Delbridge Museum of Natural History. The museum was home to the Brockhouse Collection, which includes about 150 taxidermy animals hunted by Henry Brockhouse. City officials said there was detectable arsenic in nearly 80% of the collection. Not long after the announcement, an advocacy group formed to save the collection. 'We're not in this for anything. We're not looking to gain anything out of this. There is no personal gains, no monetary. We don't want any of the items within. That collection needs to stay together as a whole,' Jason Haack said on August 23, 2023. Brockhouse's daughter, Beverly Bosch, shared the same opinion. Bill aims to show abortion videos in high school 'They've got to be put kept together. This is the world's largest privately owned museum. There isn't hardly one animal that's missing in that thing,' Bosch said on August 29, 2023. In September of 2023, officials entertained the idea of constructing a new building to safely house the collection. It was estimated to cost $13 million at that time. Then, we fast forward to March of 2024 when then Governor Kristi Noem signed House Bill 1100 into law. It allowed the collection to be sent to any non-profit, including out-of-state organizations. Nine months later, the Brockhouse Work Group, which was formed to develop a surplus plan for the collection, discussed proposals from six non-profits. Notre Dame was the clear favorite. 'Just seems to make the most sense when you look at all of these proposals, so certainly, I would move that Notre Dame would be the one that I would recommend based on the six proposals that are here,' committee member Jeff Scherschligt said on December 18, 2024. Last month, the Brockhouse Work Group recommended to the city council to send 117 of the animals to Notre Dame, 33 to the Oddities Museum and two to the Institute for Natural History. The recommendation has also received support from the Delbridge family. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
