Tag: Collections

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October 31, 2013

What’s “bugging” you this Fall!?
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October 23, 2013

Beautiful Fall Leaves…!?

Now that we've had our first light snowfall this morning and temperatures are dipping down to around freezing at night, leaves will start falling at a faster rate from the trees. So I thought it would be a good day to look at photos of some pretty fall leaves. But are they really leaves!? Look […]
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October 17, 2013

Another Use of the Natural History Collections

Written by Curator Emeritus Bob Glotzhober We have posted a few blogs over the past several months about how natural history collections can be useful, valuable and important in different peoples lives. I'm sure we have not fully exhausted the reasons, but let me briefly share this one. Last summer we got a request from […]
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October 16, 2013

Today is National Fossil Day!
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September 24, 2013

Even more uses of the Natural History Collections!
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September 12, 2013

Passenger Pigeon Featured in New Exhibit
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August 29, 2013

Museum Specimens are Basis of New Research
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August 19, 2013

I Vacuumed a Passenger Pigeon Today

I arrived home after work one day last week and my wife asked "So, what did you do today?" I casually answered, without giving it any thought, "Oh, I vacuumed a Passenger Pigeon". As soon as I said that, I stopped myself and thought "Now THAT is why I work in a museum"! In what […]
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August 9, 2013

We Put the “Re-” in Research!
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July 15, 2013

What are synoptic collections!?