University of Nebraska State Museum

Natural History Museum Of The University Of Nebraska Lincoln · Lincoln, Nebraska

The University of Nebraska State Museum is the natural history museum of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, founded in 1871 and housed since the late 1920s in Morrill Hall, a stone building on the city campus that locals simply call Morrill Hall. It is best known for Elephant Hall and Archie, a Columbian mammoth skeleton dug up in Nebraska and often described as one of the largest mounted mammoth skeletons in the world, surrounded by mastodons, gomphotheres and other elephant relatives. Nebraska is rich in Cenozoic fossils, and the museum tells that story well: rhinos, horses, camels and the strange beasts of the grasslands, with links to Ashfall Fossil Beds and Agate Fossil Beds out west. There are also dinosaur and ancient sea galleries, minerals, Nebraska wildlife dioramas, a hands-on discovery area for children and the Mueller Planetarium inside the building. It is a solid two to three hour museum, not a national-scale one, and on Husker game Saturdays the whole campus around it becomes very hard to reach.

645 North 14th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68588, United States

NO OPENING TIME HERE WAS CHECKED. The typical pattern: open Tuesday to Saturday roughly 9 or 10 am to 4 or 5 pm and on Sunday afternoons, closed on Mondays and major holidays, with planetarium shows at set times through the day. The traps that ruin a day are arriving on a Monday, coming on a Husker home football Saturday when campus is gridlocked, finding the planetarium sold out or not running, and finding the children's discovery area closed for a school programme. Confirm current times before relying on them.

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