Experience the Bronze Triceratops
Project
The Smithsonian National Museum of
Natural History has commissioned a
team of sculptors to cast a life size Triceratops skull in bronze. The casting
will take
place at Millersville University's sculpture foundry in Millersville, Lancaster
County,
Pennsylvania.
Now, for the first time in history....Come see and touch the
Smithsonian's
Triceratops! July 19th, 2001, the Smithsonian's Triceratops cast in bronze
was unveiled
outside the main entrance of the National Museum of Natural History.
How many times have you visited the Museum and wished to step closer and
touch the fossil? NOW YOU CAN. The fossil Triceratops skull, now
re-created in a material that lasts millennia, no longer impacted by humidity
and time like the a real specimen, is cast in bronze.
Navigate this site to see and learn how the bronze Triceratops was created
using an ancient method and new technology combined.
Read the full story covered in the October 2001 Smithsonian Magazine.
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues01/oct01/mall.html
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