<< Return to News Releases

Museum News Releases

The State Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present a day-long family event, “Dinosaurs and Disasters” Saturday, Feb. 18 at Morrill Hall.

This 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. event, presented in cooperation with the UNL department of Geosciences, features over 20 stations with hands-on activities and demonstrations, plus Planetarium shows on extreme weather.

Station interactive demonstrations and activities include:

"Be an Earthquake!"

Collect and keep ash samples from Ashfall Fossil Beds rhinos

Identification of rocks and fossils (bring your own & have a scientist identify them)

Giant camels stuck in the mud

“Pin the Dino on the Timeline” game, Mammals Disasters game

A fossil dig

"Meteorites and Meteor-wrongs"

Activities about the Antarctic Drilling - ANDRILL- project

Volcanoes and volcanic ash

Dinosaur lifestyles

The Dinosaur-bird connection

Tsunami and Earthquake demonstrations

New this year are:

Meteorology stations about tornadoes, extreme weather phenomena

Hurricane Katrina: the wetlands-extreme damage connection

Mueller Planetarium will offer “Extreme Weather on the Plains” – fantastic images from storm chaser Mike Hollingshead, of tornados, storms and the Northern Lights. (Additional charge for the planetarium show)

Contact: Kathy French, UNL State Museum Education Coordinator, (402) 472-6647