FossiLab is a real laboratory located on the second floor of the National Museum of Natural History, within the Last American Dinosaurs exhibition. Preparing newly-collected fossils for our scientists and maintaining all the fossils in our extensive collections is a big job. Watch through the lab's windows as Museum staff and volunteers unpack new fossil shipments from the field, remove fossils from rock and loose sediment, repair, conserve, photograph and illustrate fossils, and perform many other fossil preparation and conservation tasks. We welcome visitor's questions and love to talk about what we are doing.
This Resource is included with National Fossil Day