Meet a Scientist: Dan Kaping, Assistant Conservator, and Peter Rosen, Preparator

Come meet Dan Kaping, Assistant Conservator, and Peter Rosen, Preparator, to learn how the Field Museum's Conservation team and Mount Shop collaborated to prepare big cat taxidermy specimens for display in our newest exhibition Cats: Predators to Pets.

Scientists, researchers, and collections managers are behind the scenes every day, uncovering new information and taking care of our collection.

During Meet a Scientist, you can find them in the Grainger Science Hub. They'll discuss their work and share real items from the museum’s collection of nearly 40 million objects. From collections care to field work, and dinosaurs to ecology, there’s a world of science to explore.

Visit the Science Hub on select weekdays for an up-close look at what our researchers do every day.