Bell Expeditions
Visit with Bell Museum researchers and students for an on-site expedition-style field experience. 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 plants, dissect animals, take various data, and preserve different types of samples, for the Bell’s natural history collections.
Come see bird, mammal, fish, insect and plant specimens being processed. Many of the specimens have been received from the Bell’s Salvage Wildlife program, an LCCMR funded program.
Schedule for the week:
- August 11: Birds, Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles
- Highlights: Swan from Lisa Ramezzano, small birds from Tettegouche State Park, with Kurt Mead and from Two Harbors DNR
- August 12: Mammals, Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles
- Highlights: raccoons (one from Eagle Bluff Learning Center, one from Emily Snell-Rood, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, University of Minnesota, a weasel from Windom DNR (Kimberly Emerson), and a bobcat with Dakota Rowsey from Science Museum of Minnesota
- August 13: Birds, Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles
- Highlights: birds from Stop the Thud project
- August 14: Plants, Mammals, Insects, Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles
- Highlights: otters from Windom DNR (Kimberly Emerson) and the Bell Museum, spreading moth and butterfly wings, dissecting oak galls, and large-bodied moths
- August 15: Birds and Plants
- Highlights: Sawwhet owl from Two Harbors DNR, Boreal Owl from Tettegouche State Park, with Kurt Mead and plants
This is an in-person event at the Bell Museum.
The Bell Museum is fully committed to creating an inclusive environment. We are proud to offer multiple services or resources detailed at the link below. For additional information or to request an accommodation, please contact the accessibility office at 612-625-4511 or bellaccess@umn.edu.