New Mexico Tourism | Experience

Museums:

Art: Casa San Ysidro, Center for Contemporary Arts, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Harwood Museum, Indian Arts Research Center at the School of American Research, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Millicent Rogers Museum, Museum Hill, Museum of Fine Arts, The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of International Folk Art, Museum of Spanish Colonial Art, New Mexico Creates, New Mexico State University Art Museum, SITE Santa Fe, Taos Art Museum, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, University of New Mexico Art Museum

History: Alamogordo Museum of History, The Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, Billy the Kid Museum, City of Las Vegas Museum/Rough Rider Memorial Collection, Cleveland Roller Mill Museum, E. L. Blumenschein Home and Museum, El Rancho de las Golondrinas, Farmington Museum, Grandma's Trading Post and Museum, Historic Percha Bank, Hubbard Museum of the American West, Kit Carson Home and Museum, La Hacienda de los Martinez, Los Alamos Historical Museum, Palace of the Governors, Sacramento Mountains Historical Museum & Pioneer Village, Silver City Museum, Smokey Bear Historical Park

National History, Science and Space: Albuquerque Biological Park, Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum, Bradbury Science Museum, Explora, Ghost Ranch Living Museum, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Mesalands Dinosaur Museum, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, New Mexico Museum of Space History

Special Interests: American International Rattlesnake Museum, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, International UFO Museum, Museum of Turquoise, National Atomic Museum, National Hispanic Cultural Center, New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, New Mexico State University Zuhl Collection, NMOCA,Old Coal Mine Museum, Santa Fe Children's Museum, The Unser Racing Museum, Tinkertown Museum, U.S. Southwest Soaring Museum, War Eagles Air Museum

Mesalands Dinosaur Museum

North Central region of New Mexico The Natural Science Laboratories at Tucumcari's Community College display skeletons and bronze representations of dinosaurs, fossils, and replicas of prehistoric creatures.

The facility opened in the spring of 2000 and houses approximately 10,000 square feet of exhibit space, a spacious, well-equipped paleontology/geology laboratory (with a large area devoted to storage of the Museum collections not on exhibit but available for study), a classroom, offices, and a retail store. Classes for our natural science degree programs, with an emphasis in paleontology and geology, are held here, and all fossils found on course field trips are sorted and prepped in the lab.

Field research conducted by Mesalands Community College’s natural sciences classes, which operate in the heart of one of the earth’s great fossil beds, has already unearthed three previously unknown life species in Quay County, home of the College. Every summer, one-week field courses are offered (and may be customized for special interest groups) to the public. Information on these courses may be found elsewhere in this Web page or by contacting Museum personnel directly.

Mesalands Dinosaur Museum
222 East Laughlin Street
Tucumcari, NM 88401
Phone: (575) 461-3466
www.mesalands.edu/museum/museum.htm