University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Natural history museum at University of Colorado Boulder, United States.
The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum housed in the Henderson Building on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. It has five exhibition galleries covering paleontology, anthropology, and natural sciences with a focus on the Rocky Mountain region.
The museum was founded in 1902, making it one of the oldest institutions of its kind in the western United States. Over the following decades, the collections grew steadily and the museum took on a stronger role in both research and public education.
The museum is closely tied to university life and displays original specimens that are still used in active research. Visitors can see objects handled by scientists, which gives the collections a working quality rather than a purely decorative one.
The museum sits on the university campus and is easy to reach on foot if you arrive by public transit from downtown Boulder. Allow at least a couple of hours to go through all the galleries without rushing.
One of the galleries displays a plaster cast of a Triceratops skeleton made through a collaboration between the paleontology team and a university sustainability group. The project showed how different fields of study can work together on a single physical object.
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