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The University of Nebraska State Museum-Morrill Hall is providing virtual summer day camps in July for kids entering first through sixth grades.

Morrill Hall offering virtual summer camps

July 2, 2020

Science & Technology

The Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays, beginning July 1. To prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, public health measures will be in place.

Ashfall Fossil Beds to reopen to public on July 1

June 24, 2020

Annie Mumgaard, virtual learning coordinator for the University of Nebraska State Museum, gives a virtual tour to more than 120 young students April 14. She discussed various types of rocks.

Morrill Hall expands online content to meet pandemic challenge

April 22, 2020

Science & Technology

Annie Mumgaard, virtual learning coordinator at the University of Nebraska State Museum, leads a virtual field trip about mammoths and elephants for an elementary classroom. The public can register for a virtual field trip at 10 a.m., noon or 2 p.m. each Tuesday in April.

NU State Museum launches free online learning activities

April 7, 2020

Science & Technology

Lied Center for Performing Arts

Campus museums, public venues closed

March 17, 2020

Priscilla Grew

Grew looks back on impactful, intercontinental career

March 6, 2020

Science & Technology

Dinosaurs and Disasters is 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Feb. 8 at the University of Nebraska State Museum-Morrill Hall.

Morrill Hall to host Dinosaurs and Disasters on Feb. 8

February 5, 2020

Science & Technology

The University of Nebraska State Museum in Morrill Hall is participating in the Blue Star Museum program, offering free admission to active military duty personnel and families.

Morrill Hall joins Museums for All, offers $1 admission for low-income families

January 23, 2020

Science & Technology

Robert Kaul (center) was presented the Anderson Award from the Friends of the State Museum in 2015. He is pictured with (left) Betty Anderson, the award’s namesake, and Priscilla Grew, emeritus director of the museum.

Obituary | Robert Bruce Kaul

November 19, 2019

Dr. Advait Jukar with the Smithsonian Intitution's National Museum of Natural History measures the teeth of a mastodon fossil in the University of Nebraska State Museum's fossil collection kept at Nebraska Hall.

Nebraska's fossil collection playing role in Smithsonian research

November 4, 2019

Daniel R. Brooks

Lecture to examine connections between climate change, emerging disease crisis

October 11, 2019

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Bird Runningwater

Hubbard Lecture to focus on indigenous filmmaking

October 1, 2019