Artistic Taxidermy

Artistic Taxidermy works on big game, small game, birds, and other wildlife, but explicitly does not accept pets.

They regularly produce shoulder mounts, life-size mounts, European-style skull work, antler and horn panels, bird mounts, rugs, and custom habitat-style presentations.

Owner Eric Morgan has practiced taxidermy in Collegeville for about 30 years and runs a long-established, full-time studio with strong ties to hunting and conservation groups.

Reviews highlight great craftsmanship, lifelike results, and a showroom filled with mounts from around the globe, and note that all capes and hides used in mounting are professionally tanned or fur dressed.

They publish detailed price lists covering shoulder and life-size mounts for North American and exotic big game, birds, rugs, tanning, skull and horn work, and miscellaneous items, with example prices ranging from around $50 per linear foot of snake skin tanning to $10,000 or more for large life-size and elephant head mounts; a 50% deposit is required on all work (waterfowl must be paid in full), custom mounting and repairs are billed hourly, and payment plans are available.

They do not list specific completion times, but they require prompt pickup within 30 days of notice of completion, offer payment plans, and reviewers describe the work as fast with no common complaints about delays.

In addition to standard mounts they offer rugs, tanning, skull and horn panels, custom habitat bases and repair work, plus occasional finished mounts for sale such as mounted big game trophies.