- A gold crucible from the BLM Collection.
- A BLM compass used to help survey land to create maps.
- A Blasting Cap box from the BLM Collection.
Check out artifacts from the BLM Collection housed at the Museum of the West in Grand Junction. The objects you see here represent four very different time periods in Colorado History. Every piece was found on your public lands!
Click on the photos below to learn more.
![BLM Collection at the Museum of the West](https://westerncoheritagejr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BLM-Collection-at-the-Museum-of-the-West-1024x768.jpg)
![Dinosaur Bones from Dinosaur Journey](https://westerncoheritagejr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Dinosaur-Bones-from-Dinosaur-Journey-1024x768.jpg)
![The lab at Dinosaur Journey Museum with volunteers hard at work cleaning fossils.](https://westerncoheritagejr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/The-lab-at-Dinosaur-Journey-Museum-with-volunteers-hard-at-work-cleaning-fossils.-1024x768.jpg)
![BLM Collection of Manos and Metates at the Museum of the West](https://westerncoheritagejr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BLM-Collection-of-Manos-and-Mattetes-at-the-Museum-of-the-West-1024x768.jpg)
![Sauropod Vertebra in the Lab at Dinosaur Journey](https://westerncoheritagejr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Sauropod-Vertebra-in-the-Lab-at-Dinosaur-Journey-1024x768.jpg)
![Concretion in the Lab at Dinosaur Journey](https://westerncoheritagejr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Concretion-in-the-Lab-at-Dinosaur-Journey.jpg)
![Creatosaurus vertebra from the Mygatt Moore Quarry.](https://westerncoheritagejr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Creatosaurus-vertabre-from-the-Mygatt-Moore-Quarry.-1024x768.jpg)
![Dryosaurus Egg Shells](https://westerncoheritagejr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Dryosaurus-Egg-Shells-Object-MWC-6518-1024x908.jpg)
![Dinosaur Specimens from Public Lands at Dinosaur Journey](https://westerncoheritagejr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Dinosaur-Specimins-from-Public-Lands-at-Dinosaur-Journey.jpg)
![Public Lands collection housed at Dinosaur Journey.](https://westerncoheritagejr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Public-Lands-collection-housed-at-Dinsoaur-Journey.-1024x768.jpg)
![The lab at Dinosaur Journey.](https://westerncoheritagejr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/The-lab-at-Dinosaur-Journey.-1024x768.jpg)