When: May 22 @ 5:30-8 pm
Preserving and Mounting Plant specimens are a good way to catalogue and learn about the plants around us. From cataloging the plant life in your area to keeping track of what you grew in your garden year over year.
Museums use mounted plants to keep records of plants and biodiversity over time, as species verification for research and collections, and to be used in future research and other projects.
Join Assistant Curator of Botany Donna Cherniawsky and Assistant Curator of Quaternary Environments Diana Tirlea to learn how to mount plant specimens, how to clean seeds or fruit, and how these preserved plants are used in collections and research. Your prepped specimen will be kept as part of the museum core collections.
This workshop is open to anyone aged 12+, with no previous experience necessary. Participants under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult.
Learn about the rest of our Museum Skills Workshops series: Moccasin Preservation, Preserving your Prized Possessions, and Ice Age Palaeo Anatomy.