Meet our Museum’s scientists, ask questions, and see where millions of research specimens are housed. This is a special opportunity to see highlights of the Museum collections and laboratories in areas normally closed to the public. The tour is Saturday, Oct. 11 from 1:30-4:30pm, at the west entrance of Nebraska Hall (on 16th between X and W Streets). The event is free for UNL staff and Students. General Public $5, $3 children. Parking is available free in Lot A north of Nebraska Hall. Call 472-3779 for more information.
The Friends of the State Museum and the Museum's Research Staff welcome the public to attend a "Behind-the-Scenes-Tour", a special opportunity to see highlights of the museum collections and laboratories in areas normally closed to the public. The tour will be in the museum's Research Collections in Nebraska Hall. The museum has less that 1 percent of its 13.5 million specimens on exhibit -- the rest are in storage and research facilities at Nebraska Hall. Visitors will be able to see items from anthropology, botany, entomology, parasitology, vertebrate paleontology and zoology.
Hours for the Behind-the-Scenes-Tour are 1:30-4:30 p.m. Oct. 11. Visitors should enter the west doors of Nebraska Hall (on 16th between X and W Streets). Admission is $5 for adults, $3 children, or $10 for a family (2 adults and their children). It is free for UNL students, staff, and museum members. Parking is available free in Lot A north of Nebraska Hall. Call 472-3779 for more information or visit www.museum.unl.edu.
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