New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

Walk past dinosaur skeletons, a volcano exhibit and space galleries, then catch a planetarium or Dynatheater show.

1801 Mountain Road NW · Albuquerque, NM

About New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

The museum's permanent halls trace a timeline from the birth of the universe through the Ice Age. The Jurassic hall holds full skeletons of Seismosaurus, Saurophaganax and Stegosaurus, and an animatronic Bistahieversor was added in 2019. You will also find a planetarium, the 3-D Dynatheater, the Fossilworks exhibit, mineral displays and a Naturalist Center with live animals. The museum opened in 1986 and is run by the state.

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