Happy Holidays from March of the Fossil Penguins!

Continuing its journey for outreach, the Bruce Museum penguin is now greeting visitors at the door to wish them a happy holiday season and promote Penguin Awareness Day (January 20th). Thanks for reading March of the Fossil Penguins and please come back in the New Year for more penguin goodness.

Printing a Penguin, Part 1

Our Bruce Museum  Black-footed Penguin sure gets around town. Originally from South Africa, he now resides in our natural history collection: you may remember him from a recent trip through the collections freezer. He has been on another adventure, this time serving as the model for a technological demonstration. In this photo, our penguin is sitting on a chair being laser scanned (actually, he is a tad short so had to stand on a milk crate). The screen to the right shows the read-out.

This 3D scan will allow us to make a replicate of the penguin at live size. The Bruce Museum is partnering with the local MakerBot store for a special Penguin Appreciation Day event where we will have a penguin evolution lecture and then print a penguin live. If you are in the Greenwich CT area on January 11th, please join us at 6:30pm.