page_title: Bone Clones
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bone Clones / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Bone Clones showroom display
context_page_description: Bone Clones, Inc. manufactures, distributes, and sells osteological reproductions of human and animal bones. Located in Chatsworth, California, Bone Clones provides these reproductions to museums, universities, medical schools, and other educational institutions.
context_section_description: Bone Clones creator Dave Kronen became interested in animals during his career as an artist. During the 1980s, he began processing animals in his Woodland Hills studio, carefully and painstakingly mounting the skeletons of lizards, snakes, and other animals. With a supply of animal remains from local zoos, museums began to buy the processed skeletons from Kronen.  The idea of replicating real bones out of resin casting came from the increasing demand of museums for processed skeletons. The manufacturing of Bone Clones reproductions began in 1993.
caption: Bone Clones showroom
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