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Browse our answers to questions about the practice of science. We’re sharing expertise in what museums are for, paths to museum careers, systematics, phylogenetics, nomenclature, microscopy, photography, and more.

“If someone finds an insect that is a one of a kind and compeltely unknown to science, who gets to name such a find?”
Ken, Ventura - June 10, 2022

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“I am a high school student writing a paper for school about natural history collections. I love viewing them, but there is a lot that I don't know about them that I wish I did. Are the collectio...”
Trey, Walnut Creek - May 20, 2021

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“hello,  I am a wildlife biology student and I want to go into museum collections work, what are the skills and requirements for those types of jobs one should know? what level of edu...”
Carl, Bemidji, MN - April 29, 2021

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