RAYMOND M ALF MUSEUM OF PALEONTOLOGY

Description

The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, located on the campus of The Webb Schools, is the only nationally accredited museum in the USA on a high school campus. Also, the Alf Museum provides a unique research program for Webb students where they study fossils they find on collecting trips and publish the results of their research in collaboration with museum staff, a unique program for secondary school students only offered at Webb.

Over 20,000 visitors a year find their way to the Alf Museum. The museum has two circular exhibit areas totaling 4,000 square feet: the Hall of Footprints and the Hall of Life, totalling 4,000 square feet of space.

The Alf Museum collection was started in 1936 with Dr. Raymond Alf's discovery of a new genus of peccary (pig relative) in Barstow, California. Since then, our collection has grown to approximately 200,000 fossil specimens from invertebrate snails to Cretaceous dinosaurs.