The museum employs Earlham students to learn about museum education through work as tour guides, curators, animal caretakers, and exhibit specialists.

Thousands of school children from Wayne County along with hundreds of families and visitors experience the Joseph Moore Museum collections through tours, planetarium showings, programs, and casual visits, all at no cost, each year.

Scientists from near and far study specimens from the museum's extensive collections of birds, reptiles, insects, mammals, and various anthropological artifacts. The museum encourages the scientific community to utilize its collections for research.

Staff Spotlight: Finn Olcott

Finn is a senior biology major from Shutesbury, Massachusets who joined the museum staff in the fall of 2011. He is currently the museum's herpetology collections curator and is thrilled by how much time he gets to spend with his favorite herps cataloguing and maintaining the collection! Finn is especially excited about the new museum collections database he is working on which will allow the museum to share its collections information with other museums and upload pictures of each specimen. The museum's herpetology collection includes many local specimens including tiger salamanders and many species of frogs, but Finn's favorite herp by far is his pet chameleon. Next time you visit the museum Finn would love to show you all the amazing herps including our live snakes!