Inside the museum is stuff to see and also a working lab and an expanding storage area.  This is the storage area with specimens housed in fire proof safes. 

The skull is a cast of a prehistoric tapir.  Unlike stony fossils normally seen, the geology conditons at Gray did not have silica needed to convert and replace bones with stone. The bones found here are actaully bones, very, very old and very fragile bones.  When removed from the dark soil, the bones are kept wet and in time are stabalized with a plastic material.   Originals are kept in safe storage for research and displays are made of casts from those.

So, these are not gallery photos but perhaps you will find some of it interesting. 

     TomDart.