Alabama Museum of Natural History
- Alabama Museum of Natural History
Infobox Museum
name = Alabama Museum of Natural History
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location = Tuscaloosa, Alabama , United States
website = [http://amnh.ua.edu/ www.amnh.ua.edu]
Alabama Museum of Natural History is the state's natural history museum located in Tuscaloosa. It has collections for visitors to see the natural diversity of Alabama through exhibits from the Age of Dinosaurs, the Coal Age, and the Ice Age. The museums has collections of geology, zoology, mineralogy, paleontology, ethnology, history, and photography. [cite news | url=http://amnh.ua.edu/collections.html| title=Collections| publisher=Alabama Museum of Natural History |date=2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] It also sponsors expeditions throughout the year [cite news | url=http://amnh.ua.edu/expeditions.html | title=Museum Expeditions | publisher=Alabama Museum of Natural History |date=2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] , as it has since 1979. [cite news | url=http://amnh.ua.edu/expbackground.html | title=Expedition Background and History | publisher=Alabama Museum of Natural History |date=2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17]
One of the many notable exhibits is the Hodges meteorite, donated to the museum in 1956. [cite news | url=http://uanews.ua.edu/anews2004/nov04/meteorite112404.htm | title=UA Museum to Observe 50th Anniversary of Hodges Meteorite | publisher=University of Alabama |date=November 24, 2004 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17]
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