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Museum Apprentice Program (MAP)
Our MAP program brings together hardworking and innovative teens to develop leadership, teamwork, and communication skills. In 2024, we welcomed 31 MAP participants—12 new members along with 19 returning participants.
The MAP teens volunteered a total of 1,833 hours creating table top activities for themed museum days like Engineers Day, STEM Exploration Day, or Countdown to Noon, assisting with family programs, and helping out in Corteva Agriscience STEMLab.
In 2024, we debuted a new spinning vortex tunnel that is entirely ADA compliant, making it accessible for all guests who visit The Children’s Museum Guild Haunted House. Thanks to BraunAbility and The Children’s Museum Guild, our visitors who use wheelchairs and parents with strollers are able to fully enjoy the dizzying tunnel experience with ease!
3-D Scanner
Our new Artec Leo scanner is a handheld our team can use to create high-resolution 3-D scans of objects, including bones from The Jurassic Mile®—the dig site in Wyoming that's part of our Mission Jurassic™ project—or any other object. Scans are used for research, as well as to 3-D print objects.
Mobile X-ray Fluorescence Analyzer (XRF)
A powerful tool used to test for chemical difference in The Jurassic Mile® dinosaur specimens and label specimens for safe-handling procedures of our historical taxidermy for potentially dangerous levels of arsenic, lead, and mercury.
Allosaurus Snout
During the 2024 dig season, our team of paleontologists headed to Wyoming on a mission to find the Allosaurus snout to add to the neck and skull they found the previous summer. The team did just that.
Rows of teeth. A nose. Sinuses. It's a remarkable discovery!
The Mission Jurassic™ discoveries aren't limited to the Jurassic Mile® dig site! You can watch it all unfold in the R.B. Annis Mission Jurassic Paleo Lab inside Dinosphere®.
2024 was an amazing year at The Children’s Museum!
From important Haunted House upgrades to once-in-a-lifetime discoveries in Wyoming, amazing things were accomplished because of the generous support of our donors.Museum Apprentice Program (MAP)
Our MAP program brings together hardworking and innovative teens to develop leadership, teamwork, and communication skills. In 2024, we welcomed 31 MAP participants—12 new members along with 19 returning participants.The MAP teens volunteered a total of 1,833 hours creating table top activities for themed museum days like Engineers Day, STEM Exploration Day, or Countdown to Noon, assisting with family programs, and helping out in Corteva Agriscience STEMLab.
Haunted House Tunnel Upgrade
In 2024, we debuted a new spinning vortex tunnel that is entirely ADA compliant, making it accessible for all guests who visit The Children’s Museum Guild Haunted House. Thanks to BraunAbility and The Children’s Museum Guild, our visitors who use wheelchairs and parents with strollers are able to fully enjoy the dizzying tunnel experience with ease!
New Collections Tools
Through grant support, the museum acquired two incredibly useful technology upgrades to continue elevating our collections care and preservation.3-D Scanner
Our new Artec Leo scanner is a handheld our team can use to create high-resolution 3-D scans of objects, including bones from The Jurassic Mile®—the dig site in Wyoming that's part of our Mission Jurassic™ project—or any other object. Scans are used for research, as well as to 3-D print objects.
Mobile X-ray Fluorescence Analyzer (XRF)
A powerful tool used to test for chemical difference in The Jurassic Mile® dinosaur specimens and label specimens for safe-handling procedures of our historical taxidermy for potentially dangerous levels of arsenic, lead, and mercury.
Allosaurus Snout
During the 2024 dig season, our team of paleontologists headed to Wyoming on a mission to find the Allosaurus snout to add to the neck and skull they found the previous summer. The team did just that. Rows of teeth. A nose. Sinuses. It's a remarkable discovery!
The Mission Jurassic™ discoveries aren't limited to the Jurassic Mile® dig site! You can watch it all unfold in the R.B. Annis Mission Jurassic Paleo Lab inside Dinosphere®.
Your Support Matters
These incredible accomplishments are made available by donors—foundations, corporations, and community members—like you. It's the generous support of our donors that enables us to achieve our mission to ignite joy, wonder, and curiosity by creating powerful learning experiences for children and adults. To find out more about how you can join us in shaping our next 100 years, visit the Support Our Mission page and consider all of the different ways you can give to help can make a lasting difference.
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