CU Museum will remain closed from Monday, December 23 through Friday, January 10 for CU’s official winter holidays and planned construction activities nearby. 
The Museum will resume normal operating hours (10 AM-4 PM) on Saturday, January 11, 2025. Thank you!

Construction updates, accessibility, and parking information 

Paleopalooza 2022

It's Time to Say Goodbye to the Triceratops Skull at CU!

After 41 years, we’re waving a fond farewell to the Triceratops skull within Paleontology Hall. This charismatic ceratopsian from the Cretaceous period has looong been a favorite at the CU Museum of Natural History while on loan from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Be sure to stop by before May 8 to say hello for the first time or, to say a goodbye—before it’s too late!

Experience the thrill of the frill with PaleoPalooza activites including a Jurassic Jenga station, selfie station and more for CU students looking for a study break for finals.

Virtual tour of the Paleo Hall

The Triceratops at the CU Museum is on loan from Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology. Catalog Number: USNM V 4928. GUID: 

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The centerpiece of the Paleontology Hall at the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Museum of Natural History will be dismantled, packed and shipped back to the Smithsonian Institution. Visitors can see the fossilized skull for free until May 8, 2022.

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A beloved member of the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ (CU) campus is departing to Washington, D.C.

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Next month, ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ will say goodbye to a beloved member of the campus community—this one has three horns, a wide frill like a fan and was dug up from the ground in Wyoming in 1891.

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