The Fossil Museum at Work

A fossil museum laid out as six rooms in two rows, each with its own wallpaper and floor. Top left, a scientific drawing studio where a man at a tilted drafting table sketches a dinosaur skeleton while a girl works at a small desk beneath bone charts. Next comes the collection archive, a clerk among wooden drawers and specimen trays under a big ledger board. At the right, a curator's office has a leather armchair, a blue fossil-patterned wall and a map of southern lands. Below, a fossil gallery shows a guide with a pointer showing children a long-necked dinosaur, then a cleaning lab with a sandbox, sieve and tile floor, and an expedition store stacked with crates, rope and sacks. The long-necked dinosaur and the blue fossil wall stand out boldly, two sure anchors among the museum's six rooms.