Awarding the 2019 #MuseumSelfieDay trophy
Today Chelsea Collison awarded the Hashtag Award to our invertebrate paleontology collection team for winning our staff #MuseumSelfieDay competition on … Continued
#TBT, Leigh Morgan Pearsall Collection Donation
Museum Director J.C. Dickinson and Leigh Morgan Pearsall sign documents gifting the Pearsall Collection of North American Indian art to … Continued
Accepting the greener challenge
Two years ago, the organizers for our “Trashformations” art contest asked if we could make the reception a zero waste … Continued
Kids Dig Fossils!
There is very big science happening at our Montbrook fossil dig site, and although we do have a great variety … Continued
Terror in Dickinson Hall lobby
Here in Dickinson Hall we’re quite used to seeing odd looking boxes arrive in our lobby. We have over 40 … Continued
International Sawfish Day 2017
In an effort to connect with the public about the quickly declining populations of sawfish worldwide, International Sawfish Day was … Continued
Kids help experts spot carved bone
Although our current exhibit “Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating” focuses on objects from our collections, we have dedicated space where visitors … Continued
#MuseumLife, More Baby Frogs!
One of the perks of having an exhibit with live frogs is that every so often, we discover eggs and … Continued
Three NAS Members
To celebrated Doug Soltis’ recent election to the National Academy of Sciences, we held a gathering here in Dickinson Hall for … Continued
Drone Meets Turtle
A film crew from France was in the museum this morning working on an upcoming documentary. They used a drone … Continued