Touching the Untouchable: Modernizing Natural History Collections with 3D Printing

A crab in a specimen jar next to a 3D printed crab
  • Monday April 19, 2021
  • 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
  • Bronwyn Williams & Megan McCuller
  • Research Curator and Collections Manager for Non-Molluscan Invertebrates
  • NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • Audience: Middle School and Older

Natural history collections are important and contain an incredible amount of information, but many specimens are delicate, preserved in fluids, and/or very small. Scanning and printing 3D models of specimens make these collections into something more physically accessible to the public while preserving the data they represent.

Curriculum Correlation: (EX.2.L.1.1)

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