Workshop prepareren 2026

Soon the May holiday! Come and try your hand at taxidermy! On Saturday, May 2, you can dive into taxidermy at the Mission Museum, where you'll have the chance to prepare a butterfly or beetle under the guidance of the experienced Loes Verstraete, who has been running these workshops for five years. Choose your time slot and join in!

Butterflies at 11.00 am or 1.00 pm. Click here for the e-ticket
Beetles at 3.00 pm. Click here for the e-ticket

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A butterfly is an insect. You can tell this by the structure of its body: just like other insects, a butterfly has a head, a thorax and an abdomen. Attached to the thorax are six legs and the wings. A butterfly has four wings: two forewings and two hindwings. Tiny scales on the wings create the colours and patterns. You can recognise different butterflies by the shape and colours of their wings.

Beetles, also known as coleoptera. There are more than 350,000 different species of beetles on Earth! They are insects. So they have six legs and a body consisting of three parts: head, thorax and abdomen. In some beetles, you can clearly see this three-part structure.

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