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Bell Expeditions

Museum Exhibit Outdoors

What’s Happening?

In an expedition-style set up outside of the museum, a team of students and scientists will work together to demonstrate how scientific collections are created. Visitors will watch the team work together to process collected organisms and take various data, preserve different types of samples, and produce specimens for the Bell’s natural history collections. The Bell Museum is an active research institution utilized by scientists around the world!

Visitors to natural history museums encounter biodiversity specimens that offer close-up views of nature. Their awe is often followed by questions about where and how specimens were obtained. Even more shocking to visitors is that the specimens on display are a small percentage of the holdings of a museum collection. The Bell aims to address some of these questions of why museums have specimens and how they are obtained, preserved, and used.

In an expedition-style set up outside of the museum, a team of students and scientists will work together to demonstrate how scientific collections are created. Visitors will watch the team work together to process collected organisms and take various data, preserve different types of samples, and produce specimens for the Bell’s natural history collections. The Bell Museum is an active research institution utilized by scientists around the world!

Visitors to natural history museums encounter biodiversity specimens that offer close-up views of nature. Their awe is often followed by questions about where and how specimens were obtained. Even more shocking to visitors is that the specimens on display are a small percentage of the holdings of a museum collection. The Bell aims to address some of these questions of why museums have specimens and how they are obtained, preserved, and used.

More about Bell Museum
The Bell Museum is Minnesota’s state natural history museum, founded in 1872 and serving learners of all ages for over 150 years. Visit our world-renowned wildlife dioramas, experience the hands-on Touch and See Lab, and tour the cosmos in the Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan Planetarium.
When & Where
Multiple Dates
  • Aug 5, 2025, 10:00am to 3:00pm Timezone: CDT
  • Aug 6, 2025, 10:00am to 3:00pm Timezone: CDT
  • Aug 7, 2025, 10:00am to 3:00pm Timezone: CDT
  • Aug 8, 2025, 10:00am to 3:00pm Timezone: CDT
  • Aug 9, 2025, 10:00am to 3:00pm Timezone: CDT
Free

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