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Houston Museum of Natural Science. This list of museums in Texas encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
In 2014, the museum began a $100 million renovation of more than 174,000 square feet of space to include the Naylor Family Dinosaur Gallery and Dinosaur Lab; Valero Great Hall; McLean Family Texas Wild Gallery; and Kittie West Nelson Ferguson People of the Pecos Gallery, as well as a new 350-car parking garage.
The Creation Evidence Museum was founded by Carl Baugh, a young Earth creationist, after he came to Glen Rose in 1982 to research claims of fossilized human footprints alongside dinosaur footprints in the limestone banks of the Paluxy River, near Dinosaur Valley State Park.
The Waco Mammoth National Monument is a paleontological site and museum in Waco, Texas, United States where fossils of 24 Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi) and other mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch have been uncovered.
The Houston Museum of Natural Science (abbreviated as HMNS) is a natural history museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States.The museum was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, an organization whose goals were to provide a free institution for the people of Houston focusing on education and science.
Pages in category "Natural history museums in Texas" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. ... Dinosaur Valley State Park; F.
The artifacts range from pre-historic to modern and include five dinosaur eggs thought to be more than sixty million years old as well as a replica T-Rex sourced from the Hell Creek Formation that the museum named Bubba Rex. It is the only tyrannosaurus in East Texas. [4] [5] [6]
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science (shortened to Perot Museum) is a natural history and science museum in Dallas, Texas, in Victory Park. The museum was named in honor of Margot and Ross Perot. [3] The current chief executive officer of the museum is Dr. Linda Abraham-Silver. [4]