Visiting the Fryxell Geology Museum
Open house on Nov. 9Please join us for extended open hours and activities during a FREE evening of telescope viewing, fossil and mineral marveling and a planetarium showing on Saturday, Nov. 9, 7-8:30 p.m. at Augustana's John Deere Planetarium and Fryxell Geology Museum Open House. There will be hands-on activities in the Fryxell Geology Museum and indoor and outdoor programs in the planetarium, the Carl Gamble Observatory, and the building's grounds. |
Regular hours: The museum welcomes visitors from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday when classes are in session.
School group tours are now available. Please email Susan Wolf for information.
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Visitors to the Fryxell Geology Museum will see a complete skeleton of a Platecarpus "sea serpent," skulls of Parasaurolophus, Ankylosaurus, Apatosaurus, Allosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex.
Also on exhibit is the complete 22-foot long skeleton of Cryolophosaurus, a large crested carnivorous dinosaur discovered in Antarctica in 1991 by Augustana paleontologist and museum director Dr. William Hammer. He has collected items at digs in the Badlands of Nebraska and during his trips to Antarctica.
New on view
The family of Zada Adell and Leonard A. Lasco donated a rare amphibian fossil from the famous Mazon Creek area. This fine specimen shows nice preservation of the skull, body and limb material.
Also newly on display is a piece of the Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over Russia on Feb. 15, 2013.