You're walking along the Mississippi River and see a rock with what you think is a fossil in it. You try looking it up in a fossil guidebook, but it's hard to tell by comparing it to the pictures. You're digging in your yard and come across a bone. You wonder how old it is, what animal it's from, and what part of the animal it is - but you don't know where to find that sort of information. The Object Identification Program is a free service of the Science Museum of Minnesota's Research and Collections Division.
Identifications take on average two weeks.
Once identified, you will receive a letter in the mail stating what your object is, and how to go about picking it back up.