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 ...

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 ...

It’s easy to overlook all the auxiliary work that goes into presenting a major art museum show. That’s intentional. The fine art on display is the focus, not the pedestals, walls, room and lighting ...