The Museum of Natural History, located on the third floor of Sandel Hall at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, will hold a fall open house at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 22.

There's plenty for both young and the not-so-young to see and do at ULM's Museum of Natural History (MNH). ULM professor Gary Stringer (left) shows students from Lexington Elementary School some of the many artifacts housed at the MNH.

Patrons are invited to visit the museum and view new and exciting exhibits, including a new 240 gallon saltwater reef tank, a full size Bengal tiger mount and a full size cast of the skull of "Sue," the best preserved and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found.

At 6:30 Tuesday, the Friends of the Museum group hosts an engaging talk by Dr. Jan Hoover, a Research Fisheries Biologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg, Miss.

Hoover will speak on “Armored and Dangerous: Suckermouth Catfishes that threaten our shores”.

The Museum is open Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The museum also opens the first Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For more information, call 318-342-1868 or visit the museum’s Web site at www.ulm.edu/mnh.





Photo by ULM's Office of University Relations