Texas Science Museum Reopens

December 12, 2023

After closing its doors in 2022, the Texas Memorial Museum is back.

Now called the Texas Science & Natural History Museum, the museum located on campus at The University of Texas at Austin reopened to the public in September and includes new exhibits alongside old favorites.

Many of the specimens and research on display have a close connection to the Jackson School of Geosciences. This includes a display on dinosaur sound that features Professor Julia Clarke and a new model skeleton of Tyrannosaruus rex in the museum’s Great Hall that is based on bones held in the Jackson School’s vertebrate paleontology collections. The T. rex joins the model Quetzalcoatlus northropi, a pterosaur and long-time resident of the museum that hangs from the ceiling. The pterosaur species was discovered in 1971 by UT geology graduate student Douglas Lawson.

For more information, go to www.sciencemuseum.utexas.edu.