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University of Nebraska State Museum

The University of Nebraska State Museum, housed in Morrill Hall on the Lincoln City Campus of the University of Nebraska, is a natural history museum dedicated to Nebraska’s cultural diversity, biodiversity, and paleontology. This museum is one of the premier research and educational science museums in the nation. It was established in the year 1871 and it aims at collecting, interpreting and preserving the geological, anthropological, and natural history of Nebraska and of the Great Plains. At present, the Museum holds an extensive research collection comprising of more than 13 million specimens.

The main attractions in the Museum include the internationally acclaimed Elephant Hall, the Mueller Planetarium, the Encounter Center, the Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park, Trailside Museum at Fort Robinson, and the Larsen Tractor Museum. The Elephant Hall features the largest articulated fossil mammoth in the world. It also holds a unique collection of fossil elephants. Other exhibits at the Museum include ancient life and evolution exhibits, gems, minerals, interactive paleontology exhibits, American Indian and African exhibits, a dinosaur gallery, and several wildlife dioramas. The Museum also houses a temporary exhibit gallery holding rotating displays on various topics, including quilts, photography, and fine arts.

• Address: 307 Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0338
  
• Telephone: (402) 472-2642
• Hours: Mon - Sat, 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM; Sun, 1:30 - 4:30 PM; Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, 1.30 - 4.30 PM
• Website: http://www.museum.unl.edu

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