Museum’s curator named to 40 Under 40

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Daniel Ksepka, Curator of Science at the Bruce Museum, with his wife, Kristin Lamm, at the 2015 Fairfield County “40 Under 40” awards.
Daniel Ksepka, Curator of Science at the Bruce Museum, with his wife, Kristin Lamm, at the 2015 Fairfield County “40 Under 40” awards.

The Bruce Museum’s Curator of Science Dr. Daniel Ksepka has been named to the prestigious 2015 Fairfield County “40 Under 40” list. The award is presented by the Fairfield County Business Journal, and the list recognizes 40 of the best and brightest professionals in Fairfield County who are under the age of 40.

This year, the list was described as those under 40 who are “making waves” in Fairfield County: The awards ceremony was held at the Maritime Aquarium on Friday.

“You’re the rising stars of Connecticut,” said Harry W. Rilling, the Mayor of Norwalk, addressing the honorees.

Ksepka has been at the Bruce Museum for a year, and hopes to make the Bruce Museum a “wellspring for the next generation” through innovative science exhibitions.

Ksepka anticipates for a bright future for the Bruce Museum.

“Museums have always been my favorite places and it would be a proud accomplishment to make the Bruce Museum a wellspring for the next generation through our science exhibitions, like the Sauropod Dinosaurs in the American Museum of Natural History left an indelible mark in my own mind,” Ksepka said. “One of the other pleasures of building a museum collect ion is that your work survives in perpetuity. It would be rewarding to look back in 40 years and know that specimens added over my tenure are still providing data for scientists who were still students when the first lemur skeleton was added.”

Ksepka’s first exhibition as Curator of Science at the Bruce is Madagascar: Ghosts of the Past, currently on view in the Museum’s Science Gallery, which offers a rare window into a little-known world.

“Our exhibition includes casts of a carnivorous theropod dinosaur suspected of cannibalism and a snub-nosed plant-eating crocodilian. We then move into the more recent past, when dinosaurs went extinct and Madagascar was re-populated by animals crossing the Mozambique Channel and radiating into the open ecological space,” said Kspeka. “Here visitors encounter giant lemurs, pygmy hippos and the elephant bird, a giant flightless species with an egg holding the volume of 150 chicken eggs.”

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