From the Blog

Achemon Sphinx Caterpillar

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:00:57 +0000
by Katie Bowell, Curator of Cultural Interpretation Last week, a big, squishy caterpillar that looked a lot like this guy was spotted crawling across the museum’s courtyard by some sharp-eyed visitors. A little research on Bug Guide and Butterflies and Moths of North America revealed that we’d had a visiting Achemon sphinx caterpillar (Eumorpha achemon), [...]

The Stories Teeth Tell

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:00:01 +0000
by Treloar Bower, Curator of Education Teeth can tell incredible stories about their “owners.”  Recently, the museum received a donation from a local dentist that included casts of teeth.  Two museum volunteers are creating an inventory of these casts, which they anticipated would been a very tedious process (there are a lot of casts) until [...]

From the Archive: The Fort Collins Historical Society Upcoming Schedule

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:00:20 +0000
by Lesley Drayton, Curator, Fort Collins Local History Archive The Fort Collins Historical Society is ready to kickoff their 2010-2011 season of interesting and informative local history presentations! All Fort Collins Historical Society programs begin at 7:00 pm and take place at the Webster House, located at 301 East Olive Street, right across the street [...]

In the Key of B Flat

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:00:14 +0000
by Katie Bowell, Curator of Cultural Interpretation The World Cup is long over, so you’d think the “buzz” on vuvuzelas would have died down by now. However, as any of you who attended last Friday’s 2010 History Mystery Challenge can attest, the noisemakers are alive and well in Fort Collins. We’ve already told you about [...]

Star Gazing

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:00:34 +0000
by Toby Swaford, K-12 Education Coordinator The museum community recently lost one of its best spokesmen with the passing of Jack Horkheimer.  For those of you that never had the pleasure of meeting Jack, he was the executive director of the Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium.  To me, however, he will always [...]