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FreeA northwest Kansas city visitor bureau promoting local history, the Sternberg Museum, and Historic Fort Hays.
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Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Sternberg Museum of Natural History is a museum in Hays, KS. Cost: under $25.
3000 Sternberg Dr · Hays, KS
Why you should go…
Fort Hays State University's natural history museum holds about 3 million specimens, many of them fossils from the ancient seaway that covered Kansas. The Fossil Gallery shows the state fossils Tylosaurus and Pteranodon plus the famous fish-within-a-fish, and a large diorama puts you on a Late Cretaceous shoreline. Other halls feature live rattlesnakes, Ice Age mammals and meteorites.
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Nicodemus National Historic Site
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Fort Larned National Historic Site
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