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Idaho Museum of Natural History, Pocatello, ID

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Idaho Museum of Natural History

State natural history museum on the Idaho State University campus in Pocatello, with collections in anthropology, paleontology, earth science and life sciences.

698 E Dillon St, Pocatello, ID 83201 · Pocatello, ID

About Idaho Museum of Natural History

The museum sits within Idaho State University's Pocatello campus in Building 12. It holds the state's natural history collections, covering life sciences, earth science, anthropology and vertebrate fossils, and it also keeps an archive of documents and ethnographic photographs. The museum runs exhibits, field trips, homeschool days, and outreach programs such as a mobile museum and virtual field trips, and it offers memberships that include free unlimited admission.

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