The Head Art Preparator, Installations and Exhibitions directs a team of art handlers implementing exhibitions and installations, as well as assisting with the design of exhibitions and casework, ...

Meet Andie Carrillo, zoology preparator with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and a STEM mentor for Girls & Science. Some parts of her job can be self-admittedly "a little bit gory," but her ...

Excavating a fossil is only the beginning. It takes time, endless patience and skill to transform it into a museum-worthy exhibit. The fossils you see on display in museums and those in research ...

We are excited to welcome Robert Colburn ’96 as the new Chief Preparator at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. In the following conversation, we discuss his trajectory into the field of museum ...

My progress toward becoming a preparator began, I think, quite early in my life. While growing up along the Welsh border with England, I used to collect fossils from deposits of the Silurian and ...

With his retirement at the month’s end, we celebrate the remarkable 44-year career of José L. Ribas ’76 as the Museum’s Preparator. His career at Bowdoin has spanned six College presidents, seven ...

Preparator’s Choice is a selection of works curated by the gallery’s preparator, Stuart Elvidge, who has selected these works from our back-room collection. Who would know more than a good preparator ...