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| Established | 1968 |
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| Location | Claremont, California |
| Coordinates | 34°07′25″N 117°44′20″W / 34.123545°N 117.738898°W |
| Type | Natural history museum |
| Director | Andrew Farke, PhD |
| Curator | Mairin Balisi, PhD |
| Website | alfmuseum.org |
The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology is a paleontology museum in Claremont, California, that is part of The Webb Schools. It is the only nationally accredited museum on a secondary school campus in the United States.[1] The museum has two circular 4,000 sq. ft. exhibition halls and 20,000 unique annual visitors. The collections number about 140,000 specimens, 95% of which were found by Webb students on fossil-collecting trips called “Peccary Trips,” expeditions usually centered in California, Utah, and Montana. The collections consist primarily of vertebrate, invertebrate, and track fossils and the museum's large track collection is widely recognized as one of the most diverse in the world.[2]
The museum has six full-time staff, two of whom are research paleontologists who conduct research with Webb students in a specialized curriculum through The Webb Schools' Science Department.[3][4]
- ^ "New Director Appointed at Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, Current Director Transitions to Emeritus". PR Newswire. Jan 8, 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ Lofgren, Donald (2006). "Fossil Tracks at the Raymond Alf Museum of Paleontology and Management of Tracks on Public Lands" (PDF). Fossils from Federal Lands, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 34. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
- ^ Bhanoo, Sindya (28 October 2013). "Student Uncovers Baby Dinosaur Specimen". New York Times. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
- ^ Mohan, Geoffrey (22 October 2013). "High school student found youngest, most complete crested dinosaur fossil". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 20 November 2013.