Events & Activities at Morrill Hall

Visitors can enjoy a variety of monthly and annual events at Morrill Hall. Many events feature engagements and hands-on activity stations led by museum researchers, educators, University researchers, and community partners. Several of the museum's events are included with admission and free for members, to allow greater access and enjoyment of science exploration. Check out the calendar below to see which events are upcoming:

Annual EventsDinosaurs & Disasters, Astronomy Night, Archie's Party, Fossil Day, Morrill Hall-oween Spooktacular, Agriquest, Claire M. Hubbard First Peoples of the Plains Lecture
Monthly EventsInvestigate Saturday Science Lab, Sunday with a Scientist
UNSM educator demonstrating gravity in outer space to a group of children.

Upcoming Events

Discovery Day Camps

June & July 2026

Explore science and natural history with hands-on half-day and full-day summer Discovery Day Camps at Morrill Hall. 

Camps run June-July 2026 for youth who completed Grades K-8. 

Our camps are educator led, and include museum exploration, outside time, and some researcher visits and bonus field trips. 

Learn More

Young campers work together to excavate fossil kits.

Sunday with a Scientist: Science of Communication

Sunday, April 18 | 12-3pm

Join UNL's Audiology, Speech Pathology & Special Education teams to examine human communication development and rehabilitation across the lifespan, and advances in special education research and practice. Specifically, event activities will focus on cutting edge research to develop new methods and therapeutic in the areas of voice, swallowing, neuroscience, brain imaging and hemodynamic monitoring for cerebrovascular stroke treatment, augmentative alternative communication (AAC) technologies and brain-computer interface (BCI), hearing acoustic signals in noise, cochlear implants (CI) and bone-conduction devices, neuroimaging the 'hearing brain', and advances in multimodal learning and literacy models in special education.

Admission: Included with admission | FREE for members

Promotional graphic for Sunday with a Scientist with the event logo in foreground, background of a silhouette head, a colored brain, and lights with connection arrows overlapping the brain illustration.
Save the Date:
  • Sunday, April 19 - Sunday with a Scientist
  • Sunday, May 17 - Sunday with a Scientist
  • Saturday, June 6 - Archie's Party