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Sam Noble Museum: Norman, OK

“The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum located on the campus of the University of Oklahoma.” It was founded in 1899 and the current location has been open since 1999.

  • The world's largest Apatosaurus skeleton.

  • The Cooper Skull, a bison skull, found in 1994, is "the oldest painted object in North America."

  • A Pentaceratops skeleton with a very large skull 3.1 meters high, the largest skull of any known land vertebrate. The skull was excavated in 1941, but was not removed from its rock matrix until 1995. Though some debate exists if the skull is that of a Pentaceratops or the holotype of a different ceratopsian Titanoceratops, the Sam Noble Museum still maintains the original Pentaceratops classification.

  • A number of Mississippian culture stone effigy pipes and other artifacts from the Craig Mound at the Spiro Site.

“The Sam Noble Museum at The University of Oklahoma inspires minds to understand the world through collection-based research, interpretation, and education.”