Do you have a rock, shell, arrowhead or insect that’s got you wondering, “What is this, really?” The University of Michigan is hosting an event next month that can help you figure it out.
The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History is hosting its annual “ID Day” where people can bring in objects and have experts help identify them.
The museum is encouraging patrons to bring in their “treasures” for identification, such as “shells, rocks and minerals, fossils, arrowheads and other stone tools, shards of pottery, vertebrate bones, insects, skulls, and fungi.”
Experts from the following fields will be on site: anthropology, archaeology, botany, geology, mycology, paleontology and zoology. The experts won’t provide appraisals of any items brought in, but they can help identify the objects and discuss natural history collections.
The museum will have also have its own specimens on display during the event.
What: UofM Natural History Museum’s annual “ID Day”
When: Sunday, October 08, 2023
Where: University of Michigan’s Natural History Museum (1105 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI)
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Cost: Free
More info
https://lsa.umich.edu/ummnh/news-events/events.html
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