Author: WMOI/WRAM Intern Ethan Potter
Anderson Taylor, like many other 9-year-olds has a passion for one thing: Dinosaurs. However, what sets this passion for the Jurassic apart from others, is the drive to share it with other people. At the age of 9 years and 340 days, Anderson Taylor is the Guinness Book of World Record Holder for the youngest museum curator in the world, starting the Cambridge Natural History Museum just two years ago.
Anderson shares information about his museum:
“Our collection ranges from anything from local fossils, fossils from Morocco, and other places like Madagascar too, a lot of fossils, a lot of minerals, to really crazy metal things called bismuth, really wacky shapes like that. We have some more recent stuff like taxidermy animals, we have a few replicas of fossils that are too hard to acquire, we also have a gigantic Native American or Aboriginal cultures and their artifacts.”
Outside of curating a museum, Anderson also plays tons of musical instruments, ranging from clarinet all the way to the fiddle, Stars in a traditional irish music band called “The Ammonites” and is a student as well. Meaning the school is not open during the weekdays during the semester. If you would like to contact or visit the Cambridge Natural History Museum, you can find them on Facebook.
