It took three shop vacuums, with looooong extensions to reach all of the dust bunnies in high places, both in the exhibit hall and in the prep lab. The larger trees were hand wiped with wet rags. The plants were taken into the prep lab and washed in the sink to remove a layer of dust. You may wonder “what is the difference?” But the plants in the Cretaceous Period and in the Jurassic were different types, and, to keep our exhibits both beautiful and accurate, it takes a careful plan – even when cleaning. Even the glass eyes of our robots and reconstructions were hand polished with cleaner before the end of the day.Ĭleaning the plants in the exhibits took a major effort with 4-5 people working diligently to keep each group of plants coordinated with its exhibit. The skulls and skeletons on display are very fragile, and were given a light dusting with feather dusters – they changed color, too, during cleaning from beigey grey to a black grey. Some of the crew were amazed to watch our large dinosaurs change colors as the dust and grime of daily use and an active fossil prep lab (which generates a lot of dust!) was removed. It sometimes took two or three people to get the larger dinos, like Utahraptor and Dilophosaurus, cleaned up.

The fleshed out dinosaurs and robots were washed and scrubbed with rags/brushes in a gentle cleaning solution. Clean up began slowly at 8 am, but hit full steam by 10. We are very grateful to have such a strong showing at the clean up it’s a big museum and we certainly could not have done it without everyone.

On Monday, February 22nd, twenty museum staff, volunteers, interns, and board members rolled up their sleeves and helped clean the Dinosaur Journey exhibit hall. It’s that time of year again, time to sweep out exhibits and scrub down the dinosaurs – it’s the I ♥ Dinos Spring Cleaning Event at Dinosaur Journey. Timeline of the Uranium Boom in Grand Junction, Colorado.Rock Art and Cultures of the Colorado Plateau.Famous Fossil Sites of the Grand Valley.Geology and Paleontology of the Grand Valley.History Alive! Colorado West Chautauqua.Fall Day on the Farm at Cross Orchards Historic Site.Preserving the Cultural & Scientific Heritage of the Western Slope

Spring cleaning event steam