Sternberg Museum of Natural History
360 Degree walking tour of the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. Hays, Kansas, USA.
Sternberg Museum of Natural History: What's Happening Now?
In this special edition, host Jenny Leiker tours Fort Hays State University's Sternberg Museum of Natural History and talks with Dr. Laura Wilson, Dr. Reese Barrick, and Marcella McCluskey.
Taking a Gander through Prehistory- Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, KS
This museum was absolutly breath taking! It is for sure one of the best natural history museums I've attended, and I would definitley recommend going if you are in the area! It is a bit removed, but as i said, a must see if you are near!
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October 2019: Sternberg Museum of Natural History
This is just a small example of what you will see and experience at the museum.
Located in Hays, Kansas and a part of Fort Hays State University. They have some very interesting paleontology exhibits. The special exhibition as of this post is Thomas D. Mangelsen: A Life in the Wild featuring 40 of his wildlife photographs.
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Hays Quizness - Sternberg Museum
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Deanna takes you to Sternberg Museum of Natural History and visits with Rachel about two of the State Kansas Fossils. Your challenge? Name BOTH of these Dinos and you will be entered to WIN a suprise! Comment below!
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Touring the Sternberg Museum in Hays, Kansas on Sunday, July 24, 2010. Grandma and I took all the kids to see the Super Croc Exhibit. Sternberg Museum is a treat! Lots of dino bones, sounds and activities for younger children and the older kids can really get educated in the excavation, preserving and locations of fossils. Cool place, I recommend the trip.
Sternberg Museum Pokemon Day 360-Degree Tour
Tiger Media Network's Alex Perez showcases Sternberg Museum's recent Pokemon Day with the help of 360° video production.
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Sternberg Museum 2012
An introduction by Dr. Reese Barrick to the Sternberg Museum, followed by an interview with by Ed Stehno and Marianna Beach about Homage to Kansas a sculpture on the grounds of the Sternberg Museum.
Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Visit to Fort Hays State University's Sternberg Museum of Natural History.
Around Kansas - Fossils of Kansas - February 3, 2016
(Frank) And we're back. (Deb) So, I was in Philadelphia as you know over New Year's. And while I was there I went to the Academy of Natural Sciences on Logan Circle. And this is their little brochure, so you gotta go if you're ever in Philadelphia. I went to see the fossilized remains of an elasmosaurus that was actually dug up out near Fort Wallace in the 1860s, right in the middle of the Indian Wars. And we're going to do some more stories on that because it's a phenomenal, just a phenomenal story. But while the personnel there at the museum were showing me through their collections, they're looking for all the stuff from Kansas. So, you've got these fossilized remains of these mostly sea beasts, from when we were an Inland Sea. (Frank) Oh yea, we were the Great Inland Sea. (Deb) We were. It's amazing. (Frank) And you know, they do study that in school now, cause I know one of my granddaughters said, Grandpa, do you know about the Great Inland Sea? And I said, Hey it's a fun thing, and we looked it up and all of that. (Deb) It's really an amazing story. So, as they're pulling out these drawers in this incredible facility in Philadelphia, they're all these little fossilized vertebrae, there's just all kinds of things. And there are names. Theophilus Turner is the man who found the one out near Fort Wallace. But you've got Sternberg, you know a name that everybody in Kansas and anybody in anthropology knows from the Sternberg Museum, of course. But
you've got Sternberg's name and on these things. So, I got to thinking about all the places around Kansas that have boasted fossils, and we've got some incredible locations here in Kansas that you can go visit and some tremendous stories of people that found things and how they found them. And so, there's just stories all over the place. (Frank) Yea, yea. And the thing is especially with a lot of sandstone and all of that, cause I know I've got a pond in my garden and all that and as I was collecting rocks, I'd come upon a rock and there would be like a seashell in it. And it's like, huh that's cool. So, this has been around for some time. (Deb) Exactly. It's just an amazing part of our history and geography and it's so accessible. Like I said there's just locations all over the state that you can go and learn more and some of these you may be familiar with and some you may not be that familiar with. So, we want to share some of those with you today. According to the Kansas Geological Survey, Kansas rocks are full of fossils. Fossils are the signs of ancient plants and animals. They come in many forms, from bones and shells to carbon traces, tracks, and burrows. For fossilization to occur, an organism must be buried fairly quickly to protect it from being eaten by scavengers, attacked by bacteria, or worn away by wind or wave action. Occasionally, mudslides and volcanic eruptions quickly bury organisms on land, but rapid burial is more likely to occur in water. Based on marine fossils contained in many of the rocks that crop out at the surface in Kansas, scientists know that shallow seas covered the area for long intervals throughout the past. These seas were ideal for rapid burial. Rivers, lakes, ponds and streams also made good burial sites. Many significant fossils have been discovered in Kansas and many sites throughout the state have them on display. One of the most significant was near Sheridan, Kansas, when the post surgeon from Fort Wallace, Theophilus Turner, uncovered a plesiosaur nearly 42 feet long. A replica of the fossil is now displayed in the Fort Wallace Museum. Another interesting exhibit is in Minneapolis at the Ottawa County Museum. The Silvisaurus condrayi was found by rancher Warren Condray in the 1950s. Senator Frank Carlson connected Condray with folks at KU and the beast he discovered was named for him and is the only one of its type discovered to this point. The museum displays many rocks and fossils other than Silvisaurus, including a dinosaur egg from China. The Fick Fossil and History Museum in Oakley began with the collections of Ernest and Vi Fick. When the thousands of shark's teeth and other finds outgrew their home, the museum was established to share these artifacts with the public. Of course the Sternberg Museum in Hays, Kansas, is famous for his fish-within-a-fish fossil discovered by George Sternberg. Other fossils include huge marine reptiles, toothed birds, giant clams, flying reptiles, sharks, and bizarre fishes.
Museum of World Treasures in Wichita KS [Explore Kansas]
Museum of World Treasures in Wichita - Kansa is a world history museum. Many items on display such as Daspletosaurus, Tyrannosaurus and Tylosaurus specimens, signatures of all United States presidents, Egyptian mummies, the Scarecrow's pitchfork from The Wizard of Oz (1939), a section of the Berlin Wall, and the scalp of Henry Armstrong Reed (George A Custer's nephew).
Museum of World Treasures has opted to display an extremely diverse collection representing wide range of subjects and many differents fields of interest, not limited to a particular aspect of history. Museum of World Treasures in Wichita KS located at 835 East 1st Street.
Explore Kansas - Museum of World Treasures in Wichita KS.
Sternberg Museum T Rex Cetera
T. Rex Cetera display at the Sternberg Museum in Hays, KS. Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Monsters
Sternberg Museum Science Camps (2015)
Sternberg Science Camps: Education Through Adventure!
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Around Kansas - The Prairie Museum of Art and History in Colby, Kansas - September 7, 2016
(Deb) Not really. [Laughs] (Frank) Straighten up, we’re back. Hello again. We were talking about acting and getting involved. We were away doing that story and I don't know. There's a commercial for some sort of hard cider or something with Captain Picard, and he says, “I'm not acting” and then, “Will somebody give me a line”. The thing is, I’ve never quite understood that commercial but that's just me. (Deb) I think acting up would be what my mom would have told me. Yes, there's acting, and then there's acting up, and I think acting up is what Frank and I do here. (Frank) Yes, okay. We're going to go way out to western Kansas next and we're going to go Colby. Have you ever been to Colby? It's really out there, it's upon the High Plains but it's not too far off the interstate. Anyway, there's a museum there that you really have to go see. (Deb) You do and Colby is right there on I-70 and it's one of the last stops before you get to Colorado, and of course, everybody stops there at the Oasis and goes to the Starbucks. And if you do that, you can go over to the Prairie Museum. I can't say enough about this museum, you will be blown away. And I know I say that a lot but your jaw will drop when you go in and see the Kuska collection in this museum, and that's just one piece of what's there. (Frank) Well, and if you're saying, “To see one museum, you've seen them all”. (Deb) No. (Frank) No, because this place, there's a lot of acreage there, and there's a sod house. I mean it's really a cool place to stop and really have a serious look around. And the collections in there, you're not going to believe. (Deb) And they have a little exhibit to Sam Ramey who is a native of Colby, and it was one of the nominees for the Kansas Music Hall of Fame this year. So another little plug there. Again, just when you think you have western Kansas pegged or maybe more rural Kansas, you've got this world-class opera singer from Little Bitty Colby out there on the High Plains. (Frank) Well now, because up in South Dakota, everybody says, “Well, you got to go to Wall Drug and Wall Drug is right out in the middle of nowhere”. (Deb) Okay, that really is nowhere, yes. (Frank) Now, the thing is no, this museum is not out in the middle of nowhere. It's right there and it deserves a stop. (Deb) It does. You will thank us. You will write us letters and thank us when you go in this museum and see how great it was. I promise. (Frank) So I'm going to tell you the story. Experience early prairie life in a sod house, a one-room school, a country church and a 1930s farmstead as you discover 24-acres of outdoor exhibits of the Prairie Museum of Art and History. Among those is the Cooper Barn, the largest in Kansas and one of the 8 Wonders of Kansas Architecture. All of which would be enough reason to stop and explore, but the main building holds some surprising treasures! With more than 21,000 square feet, it was designed by architect George Kuska to house his parents' extensive collection. George's Dad came to Colby in 1913 as an agronomist for the Colby Branch Experiment Station, what is now Kansas State. In 1917, he married Nellie McVey, a Colby schoolteacher originally from Hill City. She spent her entire life collecting and was even given the opportunity to talk about her acquisitions and hobby on her own radio program. Her lifelong passion for collecting began at the age of seven when she received an antique bisque doll dated from 1887. It was a reward for learning her multiplication tables. The couple continued to add to her collections and in 1957; Joe and Nellie moved to California and opened the Kuska Museum. They operated the museum until Nellie's death in 1973. The entire collection was later donated to the people of Thomas County, Kansas, by the Kuska Foundation. It took more than three of the largest moving vans to transport seventeen tons of artifacts from California to Colby. The Smithsonian and other experts appraised the collection at a value of more than one million dollars in 1975. The museum is located on Interstate-70 in between exits 53 and 54, and hosts annual programs and activities designed for both children and adults in addition to its regular exhibits.
Welcome to the KU Natural History Museum
Take a quick stroll through the KU Natural History Museum in this video created by University of Kansas students. The KU Natural History Museum is located at 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard in Lawrence, Kansas.
Jurassic World Talk
Sternberg Museum of Natural History staff Laura Wilson (Curator of Paleontology), Reese Barrick (Museum Director), and David Levering (Education Director) talk about the science in the 2015 summer blockbuster Jurassic World.
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Visit to the Sternberg Museum in Hays, KS. Recorded with Virb Elite.
The Garden of Eden - Lucas, Kansas
My adventure to a place called Garden of Eden located in Lucas, Kansas. The Garden of Eden is a historic site and tourist attraction built by Samuel P. Dinsmoor.
Dinsmoor built and moved into a log cabin on a lot that he named the Garden of Eden. The cabin is a twelve-room house; the logs are made up of limestone quarried near Wilson Lake. Dinsmoor designed his landscape and spent the rest of his life creating the garden, which contains over 200 concrete sculptures. The sculptures and design of the house reflect Dinsmoor's belief in the Populist movement and his religious convictions.
The final resting place for Dinsmoor and his first wife, Frances A. Barlow Journey, is inside the mausoleum in one corner of the lot. As part of a tour, visitors are allowed to view Dinsmoor in his concrete coffin, which is sealed behind a glass wall. Inside the mausoleum is also a double-exposed photo of a live Dinsmoor viewing his deceased body inside the coffin.
The garden is open to the public and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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