KANSAS CITY, Mo. —

One of the four iconic shuttlecocks on the grounds of the Nelson-Atkins Museum is getting a makeover.

On Monday, a crew from Belger Cartage Service dismantled, loaded, and then transported the artwork for industrial painting. Advertisement

The shuttlecock on the southwest part of the lawn was dismantled into ten pieces.

Each of the nine fiberglass feathers was taken off one at a time, followed by the aluminum base with the orange ball at the bottom.

As a crew was taking apart that shuttlecock, Bethany Brady, an Olathe native in town for the Chiefs game from Oregon, was showing her family the one on the far south lawn.

“It's really cool. It's iconic and giant, and I keep seeing it in different stores. And I wanted to show these guys in person,” she said.

The shutt

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