Museum of Texas Tech University

Museum of Texas Tech University
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Established1929
LocationLubbock, Texas, U.S.
TypeUniversity museum
Websitewww.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu
Museum of Texas Tech University with the Moody Planetarium in the foreground and the arroyo garden and main museum building extending westward.
Main gallery of the Museum of Texas Tech University. Articulated cast skeletons of Quetzalcoatlus, Triceratops, and Tyrannosaurus in the central portion of the gallery.

The Museum of Texas Tech University is part of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. It is made up of the main museum building, the Moody Planetarium, the Natural Science Research Laboratory, the research and educational elements of the Lubbock Lake Landmark, and the Val Verde County research site. It features collections in anthropology, fine arts, clothing and textiles, history, natural sciences and paleontology.

The museum's galleries include the Diamond M Galleries with American Western artists and a second gallery that focuses on the works of N.C. Wyeth; the Davies Gallery of Southwest Indian Art that displays Southwest Native American pottery and textiles; the Talkington Gallery of Art with 20th and 21st Century art of the Southwestern United States; a gallery about dinosaurs and other Mesozoic fauna; a gallery focused on the southern High Plain's prehistoric Pleistocene megafauna; and a gallery focused on biodiversity of the Llano Estacado. The museum also includes four galleries that displays temporary exhibitions throughout the year.