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Rawtenstall bear

RAWTENSTALL
Status Juvenile, horizontal mount, juvenile
Source Unknown
Acquired 1932
Donor Bootle museum, Merseyside
Preparation Conservation treatment (essentially basic cleaning) has been carried out on the bear in 1964 and again in 1990
Current location Rossendale Museum, Rawtenstall
Notes Around the time of the Museum's acquisition of the polar bear, a number of natural history specimens were gathered from other museum collections as a consequence of the reorganisation of their displays