Museum Laboratories The museum has a number of laboratories, each for different purposes. The prep lab is used primarily for the delicate but dusty work of removing fossils from the surrounding rock matrix. It has also housed two major molding and casting projects, The wet lab has a fume hood where dangerous or simply noxious fumes are filtered and vented outside. Other equipment includes a rock-cutting saw and an acid-etching station for removing tiny and delicate bones from limestone. houses a two-dimensional digitizer, a micro-3D-digitizer, and a large 3D digitizing 'arm'. General-use computers are available with a number of morphometrics and statistical software packages.