Sacramento has a number of art museums and history museums, but Midtown’s newest museum is a real head-turner.
Nic Westfall is the owner of Skull Museum, a tattoo studio on 17th Street. Westfall uses skulls to help inspire his tattoo art. His collection is on display, and there is a wide variety of skulls, both animal and human.
"Most are cast resin skulls,” he said. “They are not real. They are casts of real skulls."
Only six of the skulls are real, and the rest are plastic resin cast duplicates. This allows the skull museum to display exotic animal skulls legally.
"All of our large, exotic skulls are resin,” Westfall said. “We don't condone the killing of animals."
The resin skulls may not be the real thing but they have real stories. Some of the fake skulls are copies of real skulls that went through an extreme trauma.
"My favorite cast is this skull found in Africa,” Westfall said. “The poor gentleman was hacked by a machete."
The backstory is gory, but the detail is so good that you can see the fractures in the bone.
If you want to see the full display of skulls yourself, the skull museum opened on April 15.
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