In an expedition-style set up outside of the museum, a team of students and scientists will work together to demonstrate how scientific collections are created. Visitors will watch the team work together to process collected organisms and take various data, preserve different types of samples, and produce specimens for the Bell’s natural history collections. The Bell Museum is an active research institution utilized by scientists around the world! Visitors to natural history museums encounter biodiversity specimens that offer close-up views of nature. Their awe is often followed by questions about where and how specimens were obtained. Even more shocking to visitors is that the specimens on display are a small percentage of the holdings of a museum collection. The Bell aims to address some of these questions of why museums have specimens and how they are obtained, preserved, and used.