In a recent news release, Dinosaur National Monument announced that they have moved more then 6000 paleontological, archaeological, historical, and biological specimens. Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum received the items through the efforts of fourteen monument staff members, three Geoscientists, five volunteers, and four Utah State employees in this interagency project in July. According to the release, “the move represents an important chapter in the history of the Dinosaur National Monument collections. Dinosaur’s collections were established as early as 1953, before there were facilities in the monument to store them. The original Quarry Visitor Center, completed in 1958 to house the historic Carnegie Quarry, also became home to the official museum collections. When that building was condemned in 2006 and remodeled with a smaller footprint as the new Quarry Exhibit Hall in 2011, there was no longer space in the monument to properly accommodate the entire collection in one location. Since 2006, the collections have been stored in multiple temporary locations around the monument.”
