The Carnegie Museum of Natural History is famous for its dinosaurs. They have many skeletons on display but where do they keep the ones that aren’t?
In the Carnegie’s basement hallway these doors are across the hall from each other: the Big Bone Room and the Little Bone Room.
Do they keep the big bones in one room and the little bones in the other?
Is a dinosaur’s thigh in the Big room and his toe in the Little one?
I haven’t seen either room but my friends at the Carnegie assure me that “Big” and “Little” refer to the size of the rooms, not the size of the bones inside them.
(photos by Kate St. John)
Kate- on a museum members tour a few months ago about Paleontology, we took a brief trip through the basement. We saw the trolley tracks in the floor where the carts of dinosaur bones were off-loaded from trains that brought them from the excavation sites out west and then brought up the hill to the museum. There’s a hallway that has old crates of bones stacked up that have never been opened!
Are those bones in boxes, bones that were sent to the museum quite a while ago, or are they fairly new to the museum?
If they are fairly new, what a waste of time and talent. They might as well have stayed in the ground.
I bet there are other museums that would be thrilled to have the bones.