Spooky Skeletons and the Flesh-eating Beetles
/In honor of Halloween approaching, it’s time to look into how the Bruce Museum acquires, processes, and prepares some of the spookiest items in the collections: Skeletons.
Read MoreIn honor of Halloween approaching, it’s time to look into how the Bruce Museum acquires, processes, and prepares some of the spookiest items in the collections: Skeletons.
Read MoreHow do you get a museum science department really excited? Showing us pictures of turtles is one way, but an even better method is shipping us boxes of amazing fossils. The shipment we opened yesterday were sent to us by the Field Museum of Natural History. They are specimens on loan for our upcoming exhibit: Secrets of Fossil Lake (opening November 21).
Read MoreOne of the highlights of my time thus far at the Bruce Museum has been caring for a specimen collected by our first curator, Paul Griswold Howes. The specimen is a mud wasp (Trigonopsis howesii) nest from Guyana.
Read MoreStories about animals and artifacts by scientists at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT
© 2020 Bruce Museum