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Collections Showcase - Astronomy
Outside in the Noble Planetarium queuing area is a collection of some of the Museum’s most significant astronomical possessions.
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Collections Showcase - Texas Butterlies and Moths
Texas has over 430 native species of butterflies, more than any other state.
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Collections Showcase - Picture This
This case illustrates the intriguing history and science of photographic processes, cameras, and the evolution of photography.
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Collections Showcase - Kachinas
Hopi artist Emil Pooley carved the Kachinas on display, and his children decorated them with bold and bright colors, feathers, and with natural objects in their hands.
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Collections Showcase - Vintage Toys
Toys represent the child in all of us, and also recall the Museum’s origins as a place of learning for children.
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Collections Showcase - Bird Eggs
With over 10,000 species of birds in the world, the size, coloration, and shape of their eggs varies almost as dramatically as the birds themselves.
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Collections Showcase - Fossils and Living Bivalves
This exhibit case illustrates the great diversity of bivalves that existed here during the Early Cretaceous (around 95 to 110 million years ago) and their living relatives.
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Collections Showcase - WWI Aviation
The Aviation Collection includes uniforms, instruments, and pictures, plus a half-scale model of a “Curtiss JN-4 Can” biplane, or “Jenny” as it was affectionately known.
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Collections Showcase - Environment
This exhibit explores the effect bottled water and its plastic containers have on our environment.
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Fun Fact

For almost 20 years, the Museum has partnered with Southern Methodist University faculty on important paleontological work: from excavating bones and fossils at sites in Texas to preparing the fossils for research and exhibitions.

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