New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

The Museum houses changing exhibits, a cafe, a gift store, and the Lockheed Martin DynaTheather, a giant screen theater similar to IMAX. Permanent exhibits include a "journey through time", covering the birth of the Universea, a planetarium and two floors.

Bronze statues of two dinosaurs, a Pentaceratops named "Spike" and a Albertosaurus named "Alberta", stand at the entrance.

In the museum's atrium is the skeleton of Stan, a Tyrannosaurus rex measuring forty feet (≈12.2 meters) in length and twelve feet (≈3.7 meters) in height, the second largest T. rex ever found.

The Museum was founded in 1986.

Location

1801 Mountain Road NW
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County
New Mexico, USA

Getting There

The museum is easily accessible by public transportation. Visitors can take the Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) bus system to the museum. The closest ART station to the museum is the "Central and Unser" station, which is located about 0.4 miles away. From there, visitors can walk or take a connecting bus to reach the museum. Visitors can also take the Route 66 bus, which stops at the "12th and Mountain" station, located about 0.6 miles from the museum.

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