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Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History

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Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History exterior
People of Oklahoma exhibit.

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum located on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. The museum was founded in 1899 by an act of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature. Its current building was completed in 1999. The museum contains approximately "7 million objects and specimens in 12 collections."[1] It has almost 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m2) of exhibit space, with five galleries and exhibits that provide an in-depth tour of Oklahoma's natural history. It is "one of the world's largest university-based natural history museums."[2]

Before its 1999 relocation and expansion, the original museum chartered by the Legislature in 1899 had occupied much smaller quarters on campus. It was known as the Stovall Museum of Science & History, named for J. Willis Stovall, a paleontologist and faculty professor who assembled much of the original collection.

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We're in the south rotunda of the Sam Noble Museum. In front of, probably one of the world's, largest bronze mammoth. We really have spectacular permanent exhibits. When I was working, designing the exhibits... we designed them with a focal point, so that it would be something that would be unforgettable. And then the rest of the exhibit, we put around that focal point. And a typical example would be the Clash of the Titans. Two of the world's greatest dinosaurs, that are there completely. One is almost 100-feet long, the other one is a terrific predator, that lived 65 million years before T-Rex. But it wasn't as formidable as T-Rex. And in that Clash of the Titans, we tell about the evolution of dinosaurs as you walk around it. But you've got a piece there that's an iconic piece that you won't forget. And doesn't exist anywhere in the world. When people come and they want to learn about Oklahoma, or they want to learn about OU, this is one of the first places they land, because it's here, it tells the Oklahoma story. It's a gorgeous facility, it's a fascinating story. And among museums, we're really a leader in the field of university museums. This museum is unique, in that almost... everything in here is from Oklahoma. And Oklahoma is an interesting state. It's got such a history. At one time it was in South America, at one time it was in the tropics, and it was above water and below water. And so we are able to tell... the history of life in this one spot of land, better than, I think, almost any other plot of land in the world. There are certain geological ages that are only known from Oklahoma. And so when you walk through the collections... you're able to walk back through time. And really see how we came to be where we are today, and how the organisms of the planet, as exemplified by Oklahoma species, changed over the last billion years. Come to the Sam Noble Museum, see one of the world's great museums.

Native American languages

The Annual Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair is held at the museum every April. In 2013, the fair set a new record for attendance, with 921 Native American language students representing 46 different languages.[3][4] Over 72 languages are held in the museum archives.[5]

The museum holds the Durbin Feeling Collection, named for a Cherokee linguist who published a Cherokee-English dictionary in 1975 and many texts since then on this language and its syllabary. He taught Cherokee for years at the university level. He encouraged the revitalization of the language in the Cherokee Nation and training of new speakers. This collection contains his Cherokee-language materials from years of research, and letters written in Cherokee to and from members of Feeling's family.[6]

Notable specimens

  • The world's largest Apatosaurus skeleton.
  • The Cooper Skull, a bison skull, found in 1994, is "the oldest painted object in North America."[7]
  • A Pentaceratops skeleton with a very large skull that is 3.1 meters high, the largest skull of any known land vertebrate. The skull was excavated in 1941, but was not removed from its rock matrix until 1995. Though some debate exists if the skull is that of a Pentaceratops or the holotype of a different ceratopsian Titanoceratops, the Sam Noble Museum maintains the original Pentaceratops classification.
  • A skeletal reconstruction of Saurophaganax, a giant Morrison Allosaurid.
  • A number of Mississippian culture stone effigy pipes and other artifacts from the Craig Mound at the Spiro Site.

Gallery

References

  1. ^ "Collections and Research Division Home". Sam Noble Museum, The University of Oklahoma. Retrieved 2017-06-02.
  2. ^ "Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History - Full Profile of the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History with Hours, Exhibits, Cost and More". About.com. Retrieved 2017-06-02.
  3. ^ Culver, Galen (2013-04-04). "Great State: Native American Language Fair" (KFOR.com, News Channel 4 ed.). Oklahoma City. Retrieved 2013-04-08.
  4. ^ Shannon, Susan (2013-04-05). "Native American Youth Language Fair has record attendance". KGOU, Your NPR Source for Oklahoma. Retrieved 2013-04-08.
  5. ^ "Collections Division, Native American Languages Main Page". Sam Noble Museum, The University of Oklahoma. Archived from the original on 2013-04-04. Retrieved 2013-04-08.
  6. ^ "Durbin Feeling Collection". Sam Noble Museum. Retrieved August 23, 2020.
  7. ^ Carter, Brian; Bement, Leland C. (1999). Bison hunting at Cooper site: where lightning bolts drew thundering herds. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3053-9.

External links

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