I Opened 50 Museum Vaults, Here's What I Found...

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Here's everything you never knew about what you can find in a museum’s storage area. I got the keys to a natural history museum's storage facility. In this video I open 50 storage cabinets and share facts about the interesting animals I find including: butterflies, caterpillars, marine snails, shells, toucans, hummingbirds, whales, walruses, seals, coots, elephants, parrots, narwhals, squirrels, cows, and more.
This video answers all of the following questions:
- Where do museums store their specimens?
- How to preserve a caterpillar?
- Where do museums get animal specimens?
- Where do museums get their animals?
- How many specimens are in a museum?
- What does a museum look like behind the scenes?
- Do cyclops animals exist?
- Where do museums keep their animals?
Specimens used in this video are preserved at the Geier Collections and Research Center. Visit their public museum, the Museum of Natural History and Science, at the Cincinnati Museum Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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  • @TheRedNaxelaYouTube
    @TheRedNaxelaYouTube10 ай бұрын

    Some of these are inexplicably funny. Cabinet 10 at 4:39 for example. Something about opening the doors up for it contain literally just a beaver, standing there, is hilarious to me

  • @maxpoh

    @maxpoh

    10 ай бұрын

    I love the box that says turtles containing basically the opposite of a turtle

  • @punkbaby9554

    @punkbaby9554

    10 ай бұрын

    Hahaha, that actually startled me for a second. 😅 I was like "ooo, that's dark... What is that..." 🔦💡 "Oh. It is just a beaver. Standing there." Lol

  • @ChickenCoop82

    @ChickenCoop82

    10 ай бұрын

    I got jumpscared lol

  • @tormclean9657

    @tormclean9657

    10 ай бұрын

    The pizza boxes are what got me

  • @yoelarmasjr.5660

    @yoelarmasjr.5660

    10 ай бұрын

    He’s just standing there… MENACINGLY!!!!

  • @octopusoup
    @octopusoup10 ай бұрын

    I love the small musical touches accompanying the narration. It really matches the feeling one gets from watching these videos. A little whimsical, but magical feeling of exploring a new and unknown world hidden from view.

  • @saraross8396

    @saraross8396

    10 ай бұрын

    Just like Mr. Rogers.

  • @lpspersian

    @lpspersian

    10 ай бұрын

    its so calming, it reminds me of curious george tbh, the calm narration and music accompanying it, so relaxing and wonderful

  • @navynew

    @navynew

    9 ай бұрын

    omg yes! this is so great

  • @noahboat580

    @noahboat580

    8 ай бұрын

    the last time i heard this kind of musical cueing style, that feels almost timeless, would be that Untitled Goose Game LOL

  • @gassymonkey118

    @gassymonkey118

    8 ай бұрын

    Blues clues vibes

  • @spikerwave
    @spikerwave10 ай бұрын

    Did not expect to see museums keeping specimens in pizza boxes! 😂

  • @Bubo688

    @Bubo688

    6 ай бұрын

    Budget cuts. They can sell that Cyclop skull to history channel ancient aliens. Man they will get creative with the story maybe even find a entire new species of alien cows visitors

  • @lugosky02

    @lugosky02

    14 күн бұрын

    One specimen per box, everybody knows the rules.

  • @thegneebler

    @thegneebler

    6 күн бұрын

    and egg cartons !

  • @AverageAufa
    @AverageAufa10 ай бұрын

    A CYCLOPS COW??? what in the world

  • @wolfyt2036

    @wolfyt2036

    10 ай бұрын

    It's called cyclopia some animals can and get it fisherman in the Middle East found an albino cyclopean bull shark the odds of that is like finding a diamond in your backyard

  • @ClebsterBoii

    @ClebsterBoii

    10 ай бұрын

    @airsight2194 it's actually interesting facts bro 😐

  • @Has-uo1lq

    @Has-uo1lq

    10 ай бұрын

    Cyclopia is more common in domesticated animals because we breed so much of one thing. It's hard to find in the wild because they die immediately or soon after birth, they get eaten before we can get the specimen. Some can live with the condition but it is very very rare. It can also happen with humans (pls dont look this up if you're squeamish)

  • @Parie7

    @Parie7

    10 ай бұрын

    It's because of genetic or whatever it is if I'm not mistaken

  • @Parie7

    @Parie7

    10 ай бұрын

    @Stevebillyjohns isn't it genetics or something

  • @Elidhion
    @Elidhion10 ай бұрын

    I work at a natural history museum, but it's always fascinating to see collections from other places. Very cool video!

  • @mrfish.-

    @mrfish.-

    10 ай бұрын

    How can I work at a natural history museum? I was always so fond of bones, shells, animals preserved in jars, skulls, and such.

  • @juankovacs6033
    @juankovacs603310 ай бұрын

    I love how humans store knowledge in some way: either specimens, images in a hard drive, or simply encrypted data in writing. We are the only animal on this planet who does this. Amazing.

  • @artiction
    @artiction10 ай бұрын

    06:10 *"looks like a bunch of bones"* yep you got that right

  • @gunk7907
    @gunk790710 ай бұрын

    Lmao this dude is so random. He says “there’s an elephants toe in that envelope, should I open it? Oh over here is an armadillo and a porcupine jaw” 😂❤

  • @gini1802
    @gini180210 ай бұрын

    This is like Christmas unboxing videos for a zoologist (you’re living my dream job right now) and PLEASE go into much more detail about all these animal specimens because I would definitely watch them (you should open the elephant’s toe envelope too)

  • @AWriterWandering
    @AWriterWandering10 ай бұрын

    6:03 now I’m imagining them ordering a pizza every time they need room for more shells

  • @tubofficial1

    @tubofficial1

    10 ай бұрын

    It was after the moment

  • @olibeau7955
    @olibeau79558 ай бұрын

    7:23 that one moved!

  • @iomoon3608
    @iomoon360810 ай бұрын

    I used to think museums displayed everything they had. 😅 if I were there, I’d spend the whole day looking at everything!

  • @caz7363

    @caz7363

    9 ай бұрын

    I think I could spend a year there!!

  • @gingerconnoisseur7395
    @gingerconnoisseur739510 ай бұрын

    You make your videos feel like interactive video games. It's really fun and engaging 😄

  • @pukkiepo3494
    @pukkiepo349410 ай бұрын

    Yet again, premium content from this awesome channel. So interesting to see these collections

  • @bhuvanendrauppada3479
    @bhuvanendrauppada347910 ай бұрын

    I've learnt such much that I didn't know I was curious about, just by following you for a few months now man

  • @shoebill4902

    @shoebill4902

    10 ай бұрын

    When the world's largest is a marine snail📮📮📮📮📮

  • @Camaika1997
    @Camaika19979 ай бұрын

    I bet this museum also has some "do not open, the insects were prepped with toxic shit which u should not breathe in. We only found out later" - cabinets (Oddly specific? Yes. My university has some of those)

  • @charliepea
    @charliepea10 ай бұрын

    Never expected a narwhal to be that big. Always thought that the horn is just half of the one shown in the video. Really cool.

  • @Lucas-sk5iy

    @Lucas-sk5iy

    5 ай бұрын

    I know this comment is months old, but I just want to say that the protrusions on narwhals are not horns, but an elongated tooth.

  • @NoisyBones
    @NoisyBones3 ай бұрын

    I’m a museum worker and it’s always a treat to look through our education closet. I unexpectedly found not one but TWO tiger hides

  • @Sneppybonesketvh
    @Sneppybonesketvh10 ай бұрын

    I love ur videos I’ve always liked learning about animals i just found this channel about a month ago thank u for teaching me so much!

  • @punkbaby9554
    @punkbaby955410 ай бұрын

    That dark beaver cabinet kinda got me 😅 I was like 😨...... 😱 for a second there lol. I live for these videos. So fascinating. And your voice and the piano keys are soothing to the ears.

  • @Lancerandduck7
    @Lancerandduck710 ай бұрын

    This was a great video!!! More of these "exploring the storeroom" videos please!!!

  • @ilikzim
    @ilikzim10 ай бұрын

    What kind of educational background do you have? What exactly is it you do with these collections? It just looks like you really enjoy working with these specimen!

  • @YUSUFFAWWAZBINFADHLULLAHMoe
    @YUSUFFAWWAZBINFADHLULLAHMoe9 ай бұрын

    The piano tones and your intonation brough me back to my childhood, which was watching kids shows like Blue’s Clues. I love it!

  • @jjerg
    @jjerg9 ай бұрын

    4:16 The whale ear bone and the baleen were incredible. Great video, as usual. 🤓🤘🏽

  • @sirlongshanksthelongshank8786
    @sirlongshanksthelongshank878610 ай бұрын

    This whole video reminds me of a really chill indie game lol thanks for the journey man

  • @zaliydassb3279
    @zaliydassb327910 ай бұрын

    Love it mate! Amazing! Keep sharing all this interesting knowledge

  • @breannabraun1774
    @breannabraun17749 ай бұрын

    I love that you have music behind all of your videos. Its so calming and makes watching these videos so much nicer

  • @GIGACAT573
    @GIGACAT57310 ай бұрын

    4:42 : They got Gaming beaver noooooo !

  • @drau.2764

    @drau.2764

    10 ай бұрын

    I hope he can still play Path of Titan

  • @fenekku33
    @fenekku3310 ай бұрын

    No words can explain how much i would like to be there studying every single speciment its awesome

  • @The42Horsepower
    @The42Horsepower10 ай бұрын

    I couldn't make out too many of the plants, but from what I could see it looks like the plant diorama includes models of Mayapple, Trillium, and Pink Lady's-slipper :)

  • @nigiyakapepper977
    @nigiyakapepper97710 ай бұрын

    This is so inexplicably lovely

  • @adelinel23
    @adelinel2310 ай бұрын

    I really enjoyed this video. It was really awesome looking at all the specimens. Definitely looking forward to more museum showcases!

  • @cr1zzzel
    @cr1zzzel10 ай бұрын

    Thank you for being in weird but true with your sister! You guys always got me exited for every episode even after rewatching them!

  • @ajtolentino3678
    @ajtolentino367810 ай бұрын

    Man i wish i can go on there bc i love natures❤

  • @Edwards_second_channel
    @Edwards_second_channel6 күн бұрын

    This is my go-to channel for nature. I love the little piano trickles! So cute. Keep up the great work!

  • @remotelyanonymous
    @remotelyanonymous10 ай бұрын

    That taxidermy beaver would have scared the life out of me 😂😂

  • @navynew
    @navynew9 ай бұрын

    this video is sooo cozy for some reason... i adore your longer videos 💞💞💞 please make more of these

  • @Rxyn_attack
    @Rxyn_attack9 ай бұрын

    Cincy mentioned!!! 🥳The Cincinnati Museum Center is one of the coolest places in Cincy.

  • @saraross8396
    @saraross839610 ай бұрын

    I was very much reminded of the late, great Mr. Fred Rogers when watching this. Your voice was similar to the calm tone of his, and the music was very reminiscent of what played when he visited somewhere or watched "Picture Picture" to show how something was made.

  • @kheily
    @kheily10 ай бұрын

    Charlie you're so wholesome, ur videos make my day💗

  • @widowkeeper4739
    @widowkeeper47394 ай бұрын

    I loved the trays of various insects and the detail about the preservation of caterpillars. I can deeply appreciate how delicate a process that has to be, especially with caterpillars that have delicate spines and tubercles.

  • @spinosauryx1915
    @spinosauryx191510 ай бұрын

    Dude this is so cool!! I wanna be able to walk around in museum storage closets and see what's in there. I'm going into biology as a major so maybe one day!

  • @Rubzjd
    @Rubzjd10 ай бұрын

    my goal in life is to have a job like yours! thank you for the amazing video!

  • @liminalreality9617
    @liminalreality961710 ай бұрын

    8:49 I SEE A COELACANTH!!!!!!!

  • @Ginger5010
    @Ginger501010 ай бұрын

    I want a whole cabinet filled with snail shells

  • @brycekessler
    @brycekessler5 ай бұрын

    I love my city!!! So hilarious that they used Larosas Pizza boxes to store shells 😂

  • @andrewmosley2588
    @andrewmosley25889 ай бұрын

    2:56 tries to sneak one out. “Is that a walrus tusk in your pants or are you just happy to see me?”

  • @GGNDRiRock
    @GGNDRiRock4 ай бұрын

    Looooved this type of video!!!

  • @DangerZone2580
    @DangerZone258010 ай бұрын

    6:02 ah yes, let me get my pizza shell box

  • @newtonfamily753
    @newtonfamily7539 ай бұрын

    3:08 no this is Patrick

  • @Life_42
    @Life_4210 ай бұрын

    You're so awesome! I love this channel!

  • @jacob_90s
    @jacob_90s10 ай бұрын

    If you ever get a chance I hope you're able to make it to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. They have the largest known Alligator skull, and I'd love to see it on here!

  • @jonathandavies2831
    @jonathandavies283110 ай бұрын

    This is so calming

  • @zstink9058
    @zstink90588 ай бұрын

    I could easily be here for days, very fascinating!

  • @skinwalkermagnet
    @skinwalkermagnet8 ай бұрын

    Idk why but this gave me "Mr. Rogers" vibe. Just a chill dude teaching and showing with the lil piano key bits. Very calming

  • @snowscapeddreams6300
    @snowscapeddreams630010 ай бұрын

    i get very excited when i correctly guess what they are. it makes me feel smart.

  • @Parie7
    @Parie710 ай бұрын

    1:12 I like that shell

  • @DragonMaiden77
    @DragonMaiden7710 ай бұрын

    9:29 I might be wrong, but is that a taxidermy Coelacanth on the wall? If so that’s kinda awesome

  • @Entomofauna

    @Entomofauna

    4 ай бұрын

    It's a coelacanth, but I highly doubt it's taxidermy, more likely a replica. Usually real coelacanths in museums are preserved in fluid.

  • @darkunicorn6669
    @darkunicorn666910 ай бұрын

    "In cabinet 10 I found......... a beaver" Idk why but that had me CRYING laughing omg that's so funny idek why

  • @Olivia-tq5lt
    @Olivia-tq5lt8 ай бұрын

    please make another one of these videos, it’s the perfect amount of weirdness and interesting facts.

  • @mrvoid-hh1zc
    @mrvoid-hh1zc10 ай бұрын

    We don't have to go to a museum this one here is free Thanks to this guy

  • @noahboat580
    @noahboat5808 ай бұрын

    what i thought wouldve felt like a Smithsonian version of storage wars, was edited like a PBS special of "whats inside the museum storage?" its a distinctive piano/musical cueing style that just feels timeless, and i love it

  • @PSPguy2
    @PSPguy210 ай бұрын

    Love this!

  • @kkivvix9406
    @kkivvix940610 ай бұрын

    Actually, all birds have scleral rings! Super cool remnant from they dinosaur ancestors, like the theropods!

  • @RobertKenny9001
    @RobertKenny900110 ай бұрын

    Oh, this is so wonderful.

  • @ospididious
    @ospididious10 ай бұрын

    With the music you use, I feel like I'm watching a random segment from Mr. Rogers. That's awesome. Keep it up!

  • @bigpuffa
    @bigpuffa9 ай бұрын

    Even if you didn’t mention Cincinnati, the La Rosas boxes would have given it away 😂

  • @katanaki3059
    @katanaki30595 ай бұрын

    What fun! Thank you and your ring of keys!

  • @lemonblossom0
    @lemonblossom04 ай бұрын

    8:54 I feel like I’m playing a video game

  • @jennaviva19
    @jennaviva1910 ай бұрын

    I adore this channel

  • @alisonsoifer4191
    @alisonsoifer419110 ай бұрын

    I feel like I’m there with you looking at all of these cabinets

  • @megasocky
    @megasocky9 ай бұрын

    Those caterpillar ones are super impressive! Bug pinning is no joke

  • @samtaylor5699
    @samtaylor569910 ай бұрын

    Between the soft gentle narration and light piano in the background, I got "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood" vibes.

  • @saraross8396

    @saraross8396

    10 ай бұрын

    Same.

  • @thiagopollo
    @thiagopollo10 ай бұрын

    Great video!

  • @akirasantos5187
    @akirasantos518710 ай бұрын

    I'm studying biology and looking forward to get a job like yours

  • @zerobatsu
    @zerobatsu10 ай бұрын

    “In this box labeled turtles I found some bird nests.” I love the low key chaos of this cideo

  • @waxwinged_hound
    @waxwinged_hound4 ай бұрын

    That swordbill hummingbird is ridiculous. That's like, Sephiroth's Masamune levels of absurd length.

  • @philodocrtina
    @philodocrtina8 ай бұрын

    8:26 more on the elephant specimen searching "Cincinnati zoo chief the elephant" yields some info. Chief was a part of a circus where he crushed and killed his keeper, was taken to the Cincinnati zoo, where he lived for the next 10 years. His life then ended via firing squad and was served as elephant steak. His remains and stuffed skin was on display at the zoo, then donated to the University of Cincinnati and then to the Museum Center. Most of this info came from handeaux's tumblr post but I was able to cross reference it with an UCinci article and the elephant database, though I don't know where the steak information came from.

  • @minirares503
    @minirares5037 ай бұрын

    man watching this while high makes time go by fast

  • @badcropbean
    @badcropbean10 ай бұрын

    4:40 i got so scared i thought it was a figure hunched in the back

  • @user-uc2ms1cj2x
    @user-uc2ms1cj2x4 ай бұрын

    I love this channel ❤

  • @taimabye1652
    @taimabye16529 ай бұрын

    And it's so cool that you Walk There

  • @samanthamark3012
    @samanthamark301210 ай бұрын

    There's a clouded leopard in the last ten seconds of the video. Just in the background, full taxidermy. That's incredible.

  • @Mrsmifff
    @Mrsmifff10 ай бұрын

    The naming convention of that bird has me rolling 😆

  • @Parie7
    @Parie710 ай бұрын

    1:01 that looks like the big shell I had but bigger than that

  • @YuBeace
    @YuBeace2 ай бұрын

    I didn’t know Narwhal tusks would be THAT long!!

  • @madisonking8057
    @madisonking805710 ай бұрын

    I loved the musical direction for this video

  • @monke.conjurer
    @monke.conjurer10 ай бұрын

    8:59 i was hoping he would pet the kitty (

  • @samanthamark3012

    @samanthamark3012

    10 ай бұрын

    Me too lol

  • @mackea1
    @mackea19 ай бұрын

    Neat. The Geier Collection is a valuable resource. ;) You should look around the Cincinnati Museum Center sometime.

  • @Sam-yb1kz
    @Sam-yb1kz4 ай бұрын

    This gives Mr Roger field trip vibes and I love it

  • @StickySucksAtGames
    @StickySucksAtGames10 ай бұрын

    In your next video, could you please explain how a cobra’s hood/cape works?

  • @adariesa
    @adariesa3 ай бұрын

    how you speak, the vocabulary u use, and the cute little sound effects all remind me of a kids show in this video

  • @vromain7825
    @vromain782510 ай бұрын

    6:21 fuck, Messi died !😢

  • @dedebenissan8596

    @dedebenissan8596

    9 ай бұрын

    😂

  • @ineffablemars
    @ineffablemars8 ай бұрын

    The editing and narration reminds me of Mr. rogers for some reason. Very calming.

  • @Parie7
    @Parie710 ай бұрын

    0:11 I had a gaint shell but smaller than that shell you have though its found in the deep oceans

  • @anonymous-sus406
    @anonymous-sus40610 ай бұрын

    04:41 insert random excited rant from a Polish person about bobr (Polish for beaver)

  • @PrinzessinSchuhkarton
    @PrinzessinSchuhkarton5 ай бұрын

    I felt like smelling this archive all video long. 😂 That weird kind of museum vibe. Cool information in your vids but it definitely hits morbid curiosity and some awkward nasty feeling at the same time lol.

  • @SamB33
    @SamB338 ай бұрын

    i just so happened to have gone to a national aviary today, so the cabinet of bird skulls was crazy cause i just saw most of those birds 12 hours ago

  • @zHollow
    @zHollow10 ай бұрын

    9:28 anybody else notice the coelacanth on the wall?

  • @redwolf92
    @redwolf9210 ай бұрын

    Can you do a morgue tour next?

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