Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Balto and the Legacy of the Serum Run

 

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The exhibition “Balto and the Legacy of the Serum Run” is on display at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History March 6 through May 2, 2010. It honors Balto, the famous sled dog, and commemorates the 85th anniversary of the 1925 serum run that saved the people of Nome, Alaska, from an outbreak of diphtheria.

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Balto, the heroic sled dog, will be the centerpiece of an exhibition at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History that commemorates the 85th anniversary of the 1925 serum run that saved the people of Nome, Alaska, from an epidemic of diphtheria.

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Famous sled dog Balto and musher Gunnar Kaasen completed the final stretch of the 1925 serum run that inspired today’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

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Sled dog Balto and musher Gunnar Kaasen achieved international fame for completing the last stretch of the serum run to Nome, Alaska, in 1925.

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Balto, lead dog of the final stretch of the 1925 serum run, and Leonard Seppala, renowned dog breeder and trainer, were part of the sled dog team that delivered life-saving antitoxin serum to Nome, Alaska.

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