At the next Draper Natural History Museum Lunchtime Expedition lecture, Assistant Curator Corey Anco explores the use of natural history collections to communicate science to the public. The free talk takes place Thursday, February 1, 12:15 p.m., in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Coe Auditorium. “Natural history museums are uniquely positioned to provide […]
Art in the Garden this year has been a lot of fun for me and the families that participate in our free activities. Our first week’s theme was Cowboys and Cowgirls. The museum guests and I had a lot of fun decorating cowboy boots, creating popsicle stick cowboy and cowgirl dolls, and making our own […]
This Discovery Laboratory is the beating heart of all that we do in the Draper Natural History Museum. On Tuesday mornings throughout the year, our scientific staff and volunteers gather in the laboratory to prepare specimens for our scientific research collections, educational programs, and exhibitions. The laboratory also serves as open storage for some of […]
Controversy erupted like Old Faithful as soon as talk began about reintroducing the gray wolf to Yellowstone National Park. Unlike Old Faithful, that controversy has never really subsided. The sky-is-falling hysteria from some quarters in the 1990s and early 2000s has been muted a bit by the recent removal of wolves from the federal Endangered Species list […]