University of Nebraska State Museum

Nebraska's flagship natural history institution, operating four sites including Morrill Hall in Lincoln.

645 N 14th St., Lincoln, NE 68588 · Lincoln, NE

About University of Nebraska State Museum

Founded in 1871, this university museum covers natural history and cultural heritage across Nebraska and the Plains. Its main Lincoln building, Morrill Hall, has several floors of fossil, science, and world cultures displays, with a well-known paleontology hall featuring mammoth and mastodon skeletons. The museum also runs Ashfall Fossil Beds, an active excavation site near Royal, and Trailside Museum inside Fort Robinson State Park near Crawford. A fourth component, the Research Collections, holds millions of specimens used by university researchers and students.

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