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October 2017
Could You Outrun a T. rex? (Lawrence, KS)
12:00-3:00pm A Natural History Mobile Museum Event at the Lawrence Public Library Visit our new museum on wheels -- Professor Dyche's Traveling Biodiversity Emporium -- at the Lawrence Public Library on Oct. 20 when Lawrence area public schools are closed. There are specimens to see, activities to try, and games to play! Could you outrun a T. rex? We'll measure your running speed with a radar gun and talk about evolutionary biomechanics! Join us to find out if you could…
Find out more »October 2018
KU Natural History Museum Member Day (& Fossil ID Day!)
Members and friends of the KU Natural History Museum in Lawrence, KS, are invited to join us for Member Day on October 28 from 1-3pm. This year's Member Day theme is Fossils. Bring your fossils in for identification and then examine even more fossils on display. We'll have light refreshments and offer tours of the Vertebrate Paleontology collections and prep lab. Contact [email protected] for more information.
Find out more »May 2019
Discovery Day: Marine Life (Lawrence, KS)
Lawrence Public Schools are out! Join us at the KU Natural History Museum for "Discovery Day: Marine Life" on Friday, May 24, from 10am - 12pm. We'll have discovery stations on deep-sea fish, the ancient oceans of Kansas, jellyfish, parasites of sharks & rays, marine mammals, and much more. Scientists and grad students from the KU NHM will be on hand to answer your questions and show you amazing specimens from our collections. Don't miss it!
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