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University of Oklahoma July 2019 47 (Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History)
University of Oklahoma July 2019 47 (Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History)

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum located on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. The museum was founded in 1899 by an act of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature. Its current building was completed in 1999. The museum contains approximately "7 million objects and specimens in 12 collections." It has almost 50,000 sq ft (4,600 m2) of exhibit space, with five galleries and exhibits that provide an in-depth tour of Oklahoma's natural history. It is "one of the world's largest university-based natural history museums."Before its 1999 relocation and expansion, the original museum chartered by the Legislature in 1899 had occupied much smaller quarters on campus. It was known as the Stovall Museum of Science & History, named for J. Willis Stovall, a paleontologist and faculty professor who assembled much of the original collection.

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Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
Chautauqua Avenue, Norman

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Chautauqua Avenue 2401
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