University of Kansas Natural History Museum

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "University of Kansas Natural History Museum" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

United States historic place

Dyche Hall, University of Kansas

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Museum of Natural History, Dyche Hall, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Show map of Kansas

Show map of the United States

Location| 14th St. and Oread Ave., University of Kansas campus, Lawrence, Kansas
Coordinates| 38°57′31″N 95°14′38″W﻿ / ﻿38.95861°N 95.24389°W﻿ / 38.95861; -95.24389
Built| 1901
Architect| Root & Siemens; Bennett, Henry
Architectural style| Romanesque
NRHP reference No.| 74000829[1]
Added to NRHP| July 14, 1974
A linear barcode that uniquely identifies a specimen in the museum's entomology collection.

The University of Kansas Natural History Museum is part of the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, a KU designated research center dedicated to the study of the life of the planet.[2]

The museum's galleries are in Dyche Hall on the university's main campus in Lawrence, Kansas. The galleries are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sundays. Dyche Hall has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since July 14, 1974; it was listed for its connection with Lewis Lindsay Dyche and for its distinctive Romanesque style of architecture.[3][4] The exterior is constructed of local Oread Limestone,[5] while the window facings, columns, arches, and grotesques[6] are carved from Cottonwood Limestone. Dyche Hall is also the site of one of only three Victory Eagle statues in Kansas, once used as markers on the Victory Highway.

Among its more than 350 separate exhibits, the museum is famous for its Panorama of North American Wildlife, part of which represented Kansas in the 1893 World's Colombian Exposition in Chicago, and was the impetus for the funding and construction of Dyche Hall and its Natural History Museum between 1901 and 1903. Modeled after a church in France, Dyche Hall was designed to house the Panorama in the "apse" of the entrance gallery. The museum is also renowned for Comanche, the only survivor on the U.S. Cavalry side of the Battle of the Little Bighorn; for its extensive exhibits of plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, pterosaurs, and other fossils from the Kansas Chalk; and most recently for its newest displays of mammalian skulls, the parasites of sharks and rays, and the pre-Columbian archaeology of Costa Rica.

The Biodiversity Institute, with more than 10 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, and archaeological artifacts, is one of the world's leaders in collection-based studies of systematics, evolution, phylogenetics, paleobiology, past cultures, biodiversity modeling, and in providing digital access to collection-based biodiversity data biodiversity informatics, including deploying these data for forecasting environmental phenomena. The Institute's collections, faculty-curators, staff and students are housed in six buildings across the KU campus, with the most recent expansion occurring in 2006–2007, when the Division of Entomology, along with parts of the ornithological and mammal collection, were moved to a new facility on the university's West Campus.

## See also

[edit]

* Camarasaurus
* Entomology
* Glass Frog
* Presbyornis
* Charles Duncan Michener
* Michael S. Engel
* List of oldest buildings on Kansas colleges and universities

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. ^ Archaeological collection management
3. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
4. ^ KANSAS – Douglas County, nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com. Accessed 2008-12-24.
5. ^ National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: University of Kansas Historic District (PDF), National Park Service, "Local craftsmen quarried Oread limestone from the north slope of the ridge for the first generation of buildings."
6. ^ "Dyche Hall Grotesques". University of Kansas. Retrieved 2015-01-31.

## External links

[edit]

Media related to Natural History Museum, University of Kansas at Wikimedia Commons

* Environmental Studies Program (ESP) – Related resources
* University of Kansas Natural History Museum Website

* v
* t
* e

University of Kansas

Academics|

| Schools|

* School of Law
* School of Business
* School of Engineering
* School of Medicine
* School of Architecture and Design

|

Locations|

* Lawrence (primary)
* Edwards Campus in Overland Park
* Kansas City, Wichita, and Salina
* University of Kansas Health System affiliate

People|

* Notable alumni and faculty

Misc.|

* Carrie
* Center for International Political Analysis
* Coal City Review
* Kansas Geological Survey
* Studio 804
* University Press of Kansas

Athletics|

| Teams|

* Baseball
* Men's basketball
* Women's basketball
* Football
* Crew Team

|

Mascots|

* Big Jay
* Baby Jay

Facilities|

* Allen Fieldhouse
* David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium
* Hoglund Ballpark

Misc.|

* Rock Chalk, Jayhawk
* Border War
* Sunflower Showdown

Campus|

* Bailey Hall
* Budig Hall
* Danforth Chapel
* Kenneth Spencer Research Library
* Lied Center of Kansas
* Natural History Museum
* Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics
* Robinson Gymnasium
* Spencer Museum of Art

Student life|

* Marching Jayhawks
* University Daily Kansan

Broadcasting|

* Kansas Public Radio
* KJHK
* KUJH-LP

History|

* History of the University of Kansas

Established: 1865

* v
* t
* e

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Topics|

* Architectural style categories
* Contributing property
* Historic district
* History of the National Register of Historic Places
* Keeper of the Register
* National Park Service
* Property types

Lists by state|

* List of U.S. National Historic Landmarks by state:
* Alabama
* Alaska
* Arizona
* Arkansas
* California
* Colorado
* Connecticut
* Delaware
* Florida
* Georgia
* Hawaii
* Idaho
* Illinois
* Indiana
* Iowa
* Kansas
* Kentucky
* Louisiana
* Maine
* Maryland
* Massachusetts
* Michigan
* Minnesota
* Mississippi
* Missouri
* Montana
* Nebraska
* Nevada
* New Hampshire
* New Jersey
* New Mexico
* New York
* North Carolina
* North Dakota
* Ohio
* Oklahoma
* Oregon
* Pennsylvania
* Rhode Island
* South Carolina
* South Dakota
* Tennessee
* Texas
* Utah
* Vermont
* Virginia
* Washington
* West Virginia
* Wisconsin
* Wyoming

Lists by insular areas|

* American Samoa
* Guam
* Minor Outlying Islands
* Northern Mariana Islands
* Puerto Rico
* Virgin Islands

Lists by associated state|

* Federated States of Micronesia
* Marshall Islands
* Palau

Other areas|

* District of Columbia
* American Legation, Morocco

Related|

* National Historic Preservation Act
* Historic Preservation Fund
* List of jails and prisons on the National Register of Historic Places
* University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places

* National Register of Historic Places portal
* Category

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* 2

National|

* United States
* 2
* Czech Republic
* 2
* Israel

*[No.]: number
*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template