A professional who prepares specimens for museum collections and exhibits. Responsibilities include:

• Cleans rock matrix from fossil specimens, using electric drills, awls, dental tools, chisels, and mallets.
• Brushes preservatives, such as plaster, resin, hardeners, and shellac on specimens.
• Molds and restores skeletal parts of fossil animals, using modeling clays and special molding and casting techniques.
• Constructs skeletal mounts of fossil animals, using tools, such as drill presses, pipe threaders, welding and soldering apparatus, and carpenter's tools.
• Constructs duplicate specimens, using plaster, glue, latex, and plastiflex-molding techniques.
• Reassembles fragmented artifacts, and fabricates substitute pieces.
• Maintains museum files.
• Cleans, catalogs, labels, and stores specimens.
• May install, arrange, and exhibit materials.