Meet Henry
- Brenna Reistad
- Apr 9, 2024
- 1 min read
Henry, is one of the first things you see upon entering the museum.
He is a 11-ton, 13 -foot-tall African Bush Elephant. who has been on display since 1959.
Meet Henry
Our 11-ton African elephant has graced the Museum’s Rotunda since 1959. Sometimes called the Fénykövi elephant, after the Hungarian game hunter who donated the hide, it’s more often called by its affectionate nickname: Henry.
In 2015 Henry was carefully cleaned and patched with special hand-colored beeswax, and his platform was redesigned. The new platform includes an information desk and new info on African elephant ecology, the threat of poaching, and their place in geologic time. The new platform reveals the previously hidden, inlaid compass in the Rotunda floor.
Did you know?
The tusks are fiberglass casts, installed in 1988 to replace earlier celluloid casts.
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