Research Casting International is a Canadian company specializing in molding and casting large and unusual objects in any medium. We apply our expertise to molding and casting fossilized and recent bone, rock faces, trees, archeological finds, sculpture and architectural elements. We are able to cast in all traditional media including bronze as well as all the modern polymers.

We have received major commissions from the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the British Museum of Natural History in London, and the National Museum in Tokyo. Our work is also represented in many other museums in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. We also built the skeletal display in Steven Spielberg's movie Jurassic Park.

Our services include large- and small-scale molding and casting, sculpting and painting, welding and machining, blacksmithing and bronze casting. Paleontological services include preparation and conservation, mounting skeletons with internal armatures or traditional blacksmithed external armatures and paleontological reconstruction.

Research Casting has been mounting, molding and casting vertebrate specimens since 1987. We are honored to hold casting agreements with the following museums: American Museum of Natural History, Augustana College Fryxell Geology Museum, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Museum of the Rockies, Museum of Paleontology University of Michigan, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Northeastern Ohio Univerisities College of Medicine, Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Peabody Museum at Yale University, Royal Ontario Museum and the Southern Methodist University. From these associations, we have put together an extensive listing of specimens available for sale to museums and institutions.

One of our most spectacular displays is found in the main rotunda of the American Museum of Natural History. It features a rearing five-story tall Barosaurus defending its youngster from an attacking Allosaurus. The display represents the tallest free-standing dinosaur mount in the world. The commission consisted of several components: conserving, preserving and transporting original fossil; sculpting missing bones; molding, casting and mounting cast and original bone; and molding and casting a section of the Hell Creek Badlands in Montana.

During the past decade, we have made molds of geological formations all over the world. We have cast lava flows in Hawaii, the San Andreas fault line in California, the Badlands of Montana, and the some of the oldest sedimentary rock in Greenland. We have also created artificial rock work for several museums in the United States.

Custom fabrication and sculpting has led us in several different directions. We sculpted, molded and cast the planets for the new planetarium in New York and extended the sleeves that cover the supports for the sphere on-site. More recently, we have been commissioned to sculpt, mold and cast seven life-size fleshed-out dinosaurs for the Canadian Museum of Nature's new galleries opening this fall. We also sculpted, molded and cast an 80 foot long Diplodocus dinosaur for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. This project was completed, from start to finish, in six months.

Research Casting has established an excellent reputation for producing world-class exhibits. We are recognized as a solid, dependable company technically capable of taking on any challenge in the manufacture and installation of exhibits. Our unique blend of art, science and technology has allowed us to fill a niche where few companies exist.

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