Peggy Schaller is the President of Collections Research for Museums in Denver, Colorado. She has a BA in Anthropology with minors in Art History and Geology from the University of Arizona in Tucson, a MA in Anthropology with a minor in Museum Studies from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and is a Certified Institutional Protection Manager. She made an extensive study of the material culture of the North American Plains Indians while doing research on a collection of objects from the Ft Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. She has also studied the art and culture of the American Southwest, Central and South America, Greece, Rome, Egypt, China and Japan.

Ms. Schaller established Collections Research for Museums, a museum consulting firm that specializes in cataloging/collection management training and services, in November 1991.

We also own and administer the Photograph Library of the American Meteorite Laboratory. The American Meteorite Laboratory, operated for over 30 years by Ms. Schaller’s parents, Glenn I and Margaret A. Huss, was the leading institution in meteorite fieldwork and identification. It was the successor institution to the American Meteorite Museum, operated by meteoritics pioneers H. H. and Addie Nininger, Ms Schaller’s grandparents. The Photograph Library contains thousands of images of meteorites collected and distributed by the Laboratory during its years of operation, as well as the Nininger Collection of photographs from the early years of meteorite research. This lifelong connection to the study of meteorites gives Ms. Schaller a unique ability to assist museums, universities and laboratories in the administration of their specimen collections.

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• American Humane Association, Englewood, CO
• Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, Golden CO
• Carbon County Museum, Rawlins, WY
• Cattle Raiser’s Museum, Fort Worth, TX
• Museum of the Mountain Man, Pinedale, WY
• Pingree Park Museum and Ramsey-Koenig State Historic District, Pingree Park, CO
• Silver City Museum, Silver City, NM
• Tread of Pioneers Museum, Steamboat Springs, CO

• Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos, NM
• Carrie McLain Museum, Nome, AK
• Fremont County Museum, Lander, WY
• Grand County Museum, Hot Sulphur Springs, CO
• International Wildlife Museum, Tucson, AZ
• John Nance Garner Memorial Museum, Uvalde, TX
• Matagorda County Museum, Bay City, TX
• Museum of York County, Rock Hill, SC
• Plumas County Museum, Quincy, CA
• Trinity County Historical Society, Weaverville, CA
• Wind River Historical Center, Dubois Museum, Dubois, WY

• Children’s Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
• First Cavalry Division Museum, Ft. Hood, TX
• Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
• Fourth Infantry Division Museum, Ft. Hood, TX
• Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, Hutchinson, KS
• Museum of Art and History At The McPherson Center, Santa Cruz, CA
• Museum of the Alabama-Coushatta, Livingston, TX
• Texas Pharmacy Museum, Amarillo, TX

• American Meteorite Laboratory
• California Institute of Technology, Lunatic Asylum, Pasadena, CA
• Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
• Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO
• Montana Meteorite Laboratory, Malta, MT