Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Natural History · Hays, Kansas
Fort Hays State University's natural history museum in Hays, built around fossils pulled out of the Niobrara Chalk of western Kansas — the seabed of the shallow ocean that covered this country in the Cretaceous. Its most famous object is the fish-within-a-fish: a fourteen-foot Xiphactinus that swallowed a six-foot Gillicus whole and died of it, found by George Sternberg in 1952, and one of the handful of genuinely world-famous fossils.
3000 Sternberg Drive, Hays, Kansas, 67601, United States
Generally open Tuesday - Sunday with reduced winter hours and Monday closure for much of the year; check before travelling. Modest admission with reductions for children and seniors. FREE parking. Five minutes from Interstate 70.
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