New Mexico State University Zuhl Collection

For more than thirty years, Herb and Joan Zuhl have collected petrified wood, fossils, minerals, and rocks for their private collection and have sold to collectors and galleries worldwide. In April 2000, the Zuhls, who moved to Las Cruces more than ten years ago, generously allowed their personal collection to be displayed at New Mexico State University. In 2003, a gift from the Zuhls underwrote the cost of remodeling and expanding gallery space in the NMSU Alumni and Visitors Center to house a larger portion of their collection in a museum setting. In 2007, another gift made possible an extension to the Alumni and Visitors Center, almost doubling the area of the museum. The museum is easily accessible to local citizens, school groups, and visitors to the university, as well as, southern New Mexico.

The Zuhl Collection, on display in the east wing gallery of the New Mexico State University Alumni and Visitor's Center, contains petrified wood, fossils, rocks, and minerals. Additional items from the collection are displayed in the Zuhl Library, located four blocks east near the center of the campus. Several displays enable viewers to see the beauty that is discovered when petrified wood is cut and polished to highlight the mineral content that replaced wood fiber so many millions of years ago. Fossil remains of extinct animals and plants as well as dinosaur bones and tracks of ancient amphibians spark the imagiations of young and old alike.

New Mexico State University Zuhl Collection
New Mexico State University Alumni and Visitor's Center
775 College Drive
Las Cruces, NM 88003
Phone (505) 646-3616
www.nmsu.edu/Campus_Life/musegals.html