This project involved disarticulating the skeleton on site, cleaning and preparing the bones, sculpting missing bones, and remounting the skeleton in a new pose. The skeleton was mounted so that it could be displayed at ground level or hanging from the ceiling. The skeleton was mounted with internal and external armatures. The externally mounted fossils are removable.
Category: Fossil Preparation & Restoration
Fossil and Cast Bone Mount of Aphelops
The project involved cleaning and preparing fossil, sculpting missing bones, and mounting the skeleton. The armature is external and all of the bones are removable.
Pratt Collection
This project involved dismantling, moving, cleaning, consolidating, and remounting and reinstalling 11 skeletons and 37 skeletal plaques in their new museum. The specimens that were remounted included: Mammoth, Mastodon, Smilodon, Dire Wolf, Cave Bear, Irish Elk, Moa, Kritosaurus, Titanothere, Eryops, and Edaphosaurus. We had also been given the responsibility to move the world renowned Hitchcock ichnology collection which is comprised of 240 trackways of various sizes. They were moved from their existing display and remounted in the new trackway hall. The largest of these trackways was 10 metres long and weighed well over 1000 kg.
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Field Museum of Natural History Skeletons
This project involved packing, molding, consolidating, reconstruction, and mounting three fossil skeletons Parasaurolophus, Arctodus, and Rapetosaurus. Hand forged fossil removable external armatures were used for these mounts. Two cast skeletons were also mounted: Deinonychus and Stegosaurus.
Jane the Tyrannosaurus Rex
This project involved reconstructing missing bone and mounting the original fossil of a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex, “Jane”, with a hand forged, external and removable armature.