Completed · 2026

The Megaloceros Restoration Project

In the context of the KU-Leuven's 600th anniversary celebrations, the Megaloceros was selected as one of the highlights in a temporary exhibit at Museum M called 'Wetenschap in Zicht' (Science in Sight).

With a team of 33 volunteers, students, members and enthusiasts, we treated each individual bone of the giant deer skeleton at our temporary conservation laboratory inside the Geo-Institute's workspace.

After nearly 120 years in storage as part of KU-Leuven’s paleontological collection, the newly remounted skeleton was presented to visitors from October 2025 to February 2026.

Completed · 2024

Fonds Robert Six

The collection of Robert Six, founder of the G.E.S.T. (Groupe d'Études des Sciences Terre), is housed at the Institut Communal Technique Frans Fischer in Schaerbeek.

This educational collection of minerals, rocks, fossils, didactic models, posters, maps, natural history objects, books, instruments, natural history objects and equipment, was used to educate highschool pupils in the Earth and Natural Sciences.

Palaeontologica Belgica was consulted in June 2024 to assess the feasibility of restoring and promoting this collection so that it could be used as a teaching tool.

Completed · 2022

Lompret-sur-Mer

In collaboration with the marble museum of Rance (Musée du Marbre), Palaeontologica Belgica erected a temporary exhibit around the paleontological, mineralogical and geological remains from the quarry of Lompret (Chimay – Hainaut province) entitled ‘Lompret-sur-Mer’.

For the first time in 20 years, the most impressive specimens which were found in the quarry will be on display. The main focus of the exhibit lies in the paleoecological reconstruction of one of the last Frasnian reefs and associated fauna in the Belgian upper Devonian.

Completed · 2021

Restoration of the Pleistocene mammal collection from the Nieuwdonk quarry

In a joint project between the municipality of Berlare (Oost-Vlaanderen) and Palaeontologica Belgica, a large collection of Pleistocene mammals was restored and thoroughly catalogued for future scientific research.

This work took place at a temporary conservation and restoration lab at the local community center. Different workstations for conservation, restorations and pyrite treatment were set up, in adherance with social distance recommendations in the middle of the corona pandemic.