About Us

Our Mission

Quite simply, bones tell a story.

Predator and prey have been adapting to each other throughout time in a delicate balance. These adaptations have altered their diets, locomotion, behavior, and physical characteristics to efficiently fill nearly every ecological niche in the world. The shape, structure, and formation of their bones are evidence of these adaptations and records of past changes in these animals.

The mission of Slow Cheetah Skeletons is to explain a little bit of the story that bones tell and create an awareness and appreciation for those animals. Slow Cheetah Skeletons is a museum and nonprofit organization that is dedicated to bringing unique educational opportunities to the public through the use of mammalian osteology. Emphasis is placed on mammals due to the incredible diversity of species, their unique characteristics and the common traits that mammals share – including humans.

The Crew

Nate Hart
Museum Owner
Curator

Nate is the owner and curator of Slow Cheetah Skeletons. He single-handedly built all of the museum’s articulated skeletons and sourced and prepared most of the specimens in the collection himself.

Nate’s passion and enthusiasm for the natural world is contagious and inspiring. Without him, Slow Cheetah Skeletons and its mission wouldn’t exist.

Stacie Takahashi
Acquisition and Repair
Director of Education

Stacie was born and raised in rural Indiana. Growing up in the country with a nature-loving family of teachers, she spent her summers fishing, catching critters around the pond and searching for fossils in the rivers and roadcuts around her home.

After working for over a decade as a freelance artist and fossil preparator, she now repairs and sources specimens and creates educational material for the Slow Cheetah Skeletons museum. She loves sharing her lifelong fascination with the natural world with curious children and adults alike.