University of Kansas Natural History Museum

University of Kansas Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center

1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045
(785) 864-4173

$3 donation open 7 days a week
Kansas fossil & geology attractions

University of Kansas Natural History Museum in Lawrence, Kansas

University of Kansas Natural History Museum - Lawrence, Kansas

The University of Kansas Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center in Lawrence, Kansas offers 4 floors (1 up and 2 down) of natural history exhibits in a hundred year old limestone building.

The University of Kansas Natural History Museum is open Monday through Saturday from 9 AM - 5 PM and Sundays from Noon - 5 PM. Thirty minute behind the scenes tours are available with resrvations made three weeks in advance for groups up to ten people.

North American panorama at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum
The museum says that the Panorama of North American plants and animals is the largest diorama of its kind
in the world. It features the flora and fauna of habitats from the Arctic tundra to the rain forest.

Triceratops prorsus at University of Kansas Natural History Museum
Triceratops prorsus skull found in Wyoming in 1895

Exhibits include live native Kansas fish, insects, and reptiles like this Massasauga Rattlesnake

Explore Evolution at Triceratops prorsus
"Explore Evolution" exhibit opened November of 2005

Comanche - horse from the Little Bighorn
One of the favorite exhibits at the KU Natural History
Museum is Comanche, a Seventh Cavalry
horse that survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn

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