Exhibits

Poop & Paws
Open through September
2,000 square feet of socially distanced activities investigating the clues animals leave behind.

Hidden Prairie
Opening October 16
Explore the life found in one square meter of prairie. This exhibit features the photography of Chris Helzer plus a variety of engaging hands-on activities.

A whole new floor of exhibits celebrating Nebraska’s natural heritage.

Celebrate Native American cultures of the past and present.

Explore how evolution works from the smallest to the largest organisms.

Take a trip across the state of Nebraska and see plants and animals in their natural environments.

Visit our world famous collection of ancient elephants, fossil rhinos, giant camels, and horses that once lived in Nebraska.

A gallery on the "Age of Dinosaurs" featuring Nebraska fossils of Mesozoic creatures.

A special exhibit highlighting spectacular fossil finds discovered over five decades of the Nebraska Highway Paleontology Program.

This popular exhibit has returned. It highlights objects from the museum's collection of hunting, fighting, and ceremonial weapons.

Journey back in time to explore the evolutionary forces that caused some of Earth's most strange creatures to adapt to different environments.

Check out an array of rocks, minerals, and meteorites. This exhibit houses many geological treasures!

Explore the Paleozoic Era - a time before dinosaurs - and investigate what lifeforms were roaming Earth.

A small gallery focused on the Jurassic period and some of the dinosaurs that lived then.

On display throughout Hardin Hall on UNL's East Campus.

A taxidermy collection of more than 160 birds from across the world. On loan to the School of Natural Resources from the museum's Division of Zoology.