CHICAGO — Owner and curator of the Insect Asylum Museum, Nina Salem, says she lives her life playing in dirt. You’ll see Salem’s lifelong collection on display at Avondale’s newest museum. She has ...

Move over “Live Laugh Love” sign and “Tournée du Chat Noir” poster. More and more people want dead bugs on their walls, albeit in tasteful frames and poses. That’s what Morgan Loftin reports. She and ...

CHICAGO -- Every displayed item has a story at The Insect Asylum, a vintage taxidermy museum in Chicago's Avondale neighborhood. Owner and founder Nina Salem has spent years curating her massive ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Opening during 2020 with a large focus on insect taxidermy, the Novis Mortem Collective is all about bringing unique (and local) art to downtown Colorado Springs as well as ...

You may know the Insect Asylum as a quirky storefront in Logan Square where you can explore a whole underrecognized phylum and boop a possum snout all in the same day, but its coolness goes even ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Tucked away in one corner of downtown Colorado Springs, Andrew Cronk is utilizing his passion for creating art via insect taxidermy to spark conversations that he hopes will lead ...