Progress on the New Science Geology Gallery

The exhibition team, Dan Buckley and Anne von Stuelpnagel, have been working in the Geology Gallery on the final exhibit details, with sheer force and their creative ability to display all the rocks and safely secure the displays. First, deep drilling of the rocks to secure screws for the mountings, creating the mounts, artistically painting the clasps and the mounting platforms to blend everything into the displayed specimen rocks. There is a tremendous amount of work that no one will know but will appreciate when the grand display is finished.

The Geology Gallery will be the rock cycle. Displays will show how igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can be formed, destroyed, and recycled into new rocks. Visitors can see rocks altered by faulting, folding, and fracturing. The displays will also feature rocks transformed by erosion from wind, the action of river currents, and melting and recrystallization.​