Port Huron dinosaur bone cleaning Oct. 24: PaleoJoe preps a Triceratops rib live at the Carnegie Museum

PORT HURON, Mich. — Families can watch real dinosaur bones being cleaned and prepared for display on Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Port Huron Museums’ Carnegie Museum.

Fossil hunter Joseph “PaleoJoe” Kchodl will work from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the museum, 1115 Sixth St., and answer questions as he goes. The museum says he will work on a Triceratops rib and a leg bone from a long-necked sauropod at different times during the day.

Cost. The demonstrations are included with regular museum admission, bought at the front desk, and no separate ticket is needed, the museum says. Admission is $12 for adults, 10% off for students and seniors, $30 for a family of two adults and up to four children, and free for children 4 and under. Donations are welcome.

DinoLab. The bone work ties in with “DinoLab,” the museum’s exhibit of real dinosaur bones and a working prep lab, which runs through Jan. 3, 2027. It is presented by PaleoJoe and his daughter, Jen “PaleoJen” Clark, a father-daughter team of dinosaur hunters, and sponsored by the Community Foundation of St. Clair County.

More dates. The museum’s calendar lists Saturday’s session; its Eventbrite listing for the demonstrations runs through Dec. 5, so check the museum’s calendar for later times.

The building. The Carnegie Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with last entry for tours at 4 p.m. Andrew Carnegie paid $45,000 to build it in 1902 as the Port Huron Public Library, and it reopened as the Museum of Arts & History in 1968, according to the museum.

Sources:
Port Huron Museums, “Dinosaur Bone Cleaning Demonstrations with PaleoJoe” (Oct. 24, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., venue, cost), https://www.phmuseum.org/event/dinosaur-bone-cleaning-demonstrations-with-paleojoe/
Port Huron Museums, “DinoLab” (exhibit dates, PaleoJoe and PaleoJen, sponsor), https://www.phmuseum.org/dinolab/
Port Huron Museums, Carnegie Museum (hours, admission, building history), https://www.phmuseum.org/carnegie-museum/
Eventbrite, Port Huron Museums listing (Triceratops rib and sauropod leg bone, no separate ticket, listing dates), https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dinosaur-bone-cleaning-demonstrations-with-paleojoe-tickets-1999704011529
Times Herald, “Watch live dinosaur bone cleaning at Port Huron museum,” https://www.thetimesherald.com/story/news/local/2026/10/21/paleojoe-dinosaur-bone-cleaning-demonstrations-carnegie-museum-port-huron-michigan/92336441007/
Photo: Darren56brown, “Port Huron Museum Carnegie Center.JPG,” Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped and color-adjusted, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Port_Huron_Museum_Carnegie_Center.JPG

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