Animal attraction for sale

A kittens tea party is part of the exhibition

A bizarre collection of stuffed animals could fetch up to £2m when it is sold by a Cornwall museum.

The Museum of Curiosities is home to a menagerie of 10,000 Victorian stuffed animals.

The museum, next to the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor, gets about 30,000 visitors a year.

But now the inn's owner Kevin Moore has decided to sell.

Stuffed frogs are for sale

Mr Moore said: "It was very fashionable to have taxidermy on your mantlepiece in Victorian times, but it is not really in favour now."

Nevertheless, figures of up to £2m for the collection have been discussed.

The museum was opened in 1861 by taxidermist Walter Potter.

Tableaux include a kittens tea party, cricket-playing guinea pigs and swinging frogs.