David

David is the Museum’s associate curator of paleontology. In addition to running the Museum’s dig program in Seymour, TX and curating exhibits, he’s also unofficial head of The Department of Mysteries, a shadow wing of HMNS that deals with strange goo, unusual fossils, mysterious substances or any other unknown object you'd like to know what to do with.

Get Ready For Trains Over Texas!

All Aboard! “Trains Over Texas” being constructed at TW TrainWorx headquarters   Create holiday memories by travelling across Texas by model railroad in this scratch built  “O” scale model. The multiple trains crisscrossing the state will visit important and unique places in our state’s geology and physiography. Destinations include oil country salt domes, prairies and […]

The 113th Anniversary of ‘Ol 97

“Sorry we couldn’t remember the Wreck of Old ’97”  Elwood,  The Blues Brothers                         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck_of_the_Old_97   One of the things I have been working on lately is an exhibit, Trains over Texas, which will open in the near future. The exhibit is a masterpiece of […]

Dino-chores at HMNS

The last three evenings have been spent doing a dinosaur cleaning. Three times a year staff and volunteers give up a few of their evenings to dust the mounts in the Hall of Paleontology. We clean the mounts using a variety of tools ranging from low tech dust clothes and soft brushes to pretty fancy vacuums […]