the “Fossil Block Theater” experience, visitors are immersed by a physical reproduction of the Dueling Dinosaurs fossil pair. As a narrator describes how the museum’s paleontologists use evidence-based methods to better understand the fossils, mapped projections dance across the surface of the reproduced fossil. The projection draws attention to the details that reveal specific evidence as enveloping animations recreate potential events that could have caused the dinosaurs to have been buried together. The actual fossil, under rigorous study in an adjacent viewing gallery, is now in pieces. Ideum processed NCMNS’s original, intact 3D scan of the Dueling Dinosaurs fossil and reproduced it using CNC technology. The 3D model was scaled to fit the room and was split into four separate panels to be milled on the CNC by Ideum’s Fabrication team. After milling, the foam was seamed, sanded, hard-coated, and scenically painted to ensure scientific accuracy and vivid projection. 3D Paleoartists, Urvogel, well known for their Saurian dinosaur simulation game, animated scenes of dinosaur movements and interactions, as well as provided surface “skins” to line up over the fossil skeleton reproductions, helping to introduce and flesh out the fossil pair’s storyline.