Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum in Norman, Oklahoma, operated by the University of Oklahoma. It is currently housed in a building on Chautauqua Avenue that opened on May 1, 2000. The museum's exhibits include a Native American gallery and collections of fossils and dinosaur skeletons from Oklahoma and throughout the world. The museum features seven different galleries as well as the interactive, hands-on Discovery Room. With twelve collection divisions and over 6,000,000 items, Sam Noble is one of the world's largest university-based natural history museums. On October 25, 2006 it was announced that the museum got a one million dollar gift to build an orientation gallery expected to open in 2009. [1]

Among the museum's notable items are:

  • The world's largest Apatosaurus skeleton.
  • The Cooper Skull, a bison skull, found in 1994, which is "the oldest painted object in North America."[2]
  • A Pentaceratops skeleton with a skull 3.1 meters high, the largest known of a land vertebrate. The skull was excavated in 1941, but was not removed from its rock matrix until 1995.[3]

[edit] External links


Bizzell library University of Oklahoma

Academics

College of Engineering • College of Architecture • Price College of Business • Arts & Sciences • Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication • College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences • College of Earth and Energy • College of Education • Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts • University College • Law School • Medical School

Athletics

Oklahoma Sooners • Oklahoma Memorial Stadium • Lloyd Noble Center • L. Dale Mitchell Baseball Park • Field House • Red River Shootout • Red River Shootout trophies • Bedlam • RUF/NEKS • Sooner Schooner• Boomer and Sooner

Campus

Student Union • National Weather Center • Natural History Museum • Museum of Art

Student Life

Oklahoma Daily • Campus Corner • The Pride of Oklahoma • Alumni


 This article related to a museum in the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
This University of Oklahoma-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../s/a/m/Sam_Noble_Oklahoma_Museum_of_Natural_History_9d48.html"