Packing Up
- Breaking down the old facility
- History Collection
- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection
- The Department of the Interior Collection
Moving In
Archeologists use examples of known faunal specimens to identify bones found on archeological digs. This information can be extremely useful in determining past eating habits. While we were able to pack most of the bone collection in standard boxes, several of the more delicate specimens required customed packing. Turtle skeletons, such as the one pictured here, needed to be wrapped in such a way as to provide gentle stability for the coming move. These bones were placed into smaller boxes which had been lined with cotton batting. These boxes were then nested inside a combination of ethafoam and bubble wrap.
Other specimens needed more intensive stabilization. In order to pack the sheep skull, pictured below, a brace was constructed out of a combination of thick and thin ethafoam. A box was then custom-built to suit the foam mount. Cotton batting was used to protect the fragile mid-section of the chicken to the right. Following this padding, the skeleton was wrapped in bubble wrap and placed in another custom-built box.
