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About University of Nebraska State Museum

The University of Nebraska State Museum (the NU State Museum) is a natural history museum housed in Morrill Hall on the campus of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. Founded in 1871, it features biodiversity, paleontology, and cultural diversity from across the Great Plains. It became a Smithsonian Affiliate in 2013.

The State Museum comprises four floors with ten permanent exhibits. Among these are Elephant Hall, which houses the world's largest articulated fossil mammoth among its collection of fossil elephants, and Mueller Planetarium, an interactive science center. Other exhibits feature paleontology, ancient life and evolution, wildlife, gems and minerals, and American Indian and African artifacts.

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1871

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  2. Morrill Hall (first floor hallway), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA02Morrill Hall (first floor hallway), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USAHanyou23 · CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. Morrill Hall (first floor southwest), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA03Morrill Hall (first floor southwest), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USAHanyou23 · CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. Marx Discovery Center, Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA04Marx Discovery Center, Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USAHanyou23 · CC BY-SA 4.0
  5. Mueller Planetarium (waiting area), Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA05Mueller Planetarium (waiting area), Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USAHanyou23 · CC BY-SA 4.0
  6. Lloyd G. Tanner Plaza & Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA06Lloyd G. Tanner Plaza & Morrill Hall, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USAHanyou23 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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