Meet Andie Carrillo, zoology preparator with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and a STEM mentor for Girls & Science. Some parts of her job can be self-admittedly "a little bit gory," but her ...

Anyone who has enjoyed early entry to a museum exhibition, maybe even at a members' preview, may have seen bits of blue tape flecking a white gallery wall like bloody nicks on a freshly shaven cheek. ...

Excavating a fossil is only the beginning. It takes time, endless patience and skill to transform it into a museum-worthy exhibit. The fossils you see on display in museums and those in research ...

My progress toward becoming a preparator began, I think, quite early in my life. While growing up along the Welsh border with England, I used to collect fossils from deposits of the Silurian and ...

We are excited to welcome Robert Colburn ’96 as the new Chief Preparator at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. In the following conversation, we discuss his trajectory into the field of museum ...

It is a given that the risk of damage to an object in our state’s museum collections increases the more the object is handled. For a preparator, whose job entails prepping objects for display and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was the second to last day in the field two years ago. During the heat of a Montana summer, the Carthage Institute of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER — Staff at the Denver Museum of ...