Current Exhibits
Texas Titans
Walk beneath the 33-foot wingspan of a pterosaur, Quetzalcoatlus northropi, the largest flying creature to ever live, and meet our new tyrannosaur!
Texas Transformation Gallery
Experience Texas’ shifting environmental identity over 600 million years of life through stunning imagery, newly exhibited fossils and a paleogeographic time-lapse animation.
Paleontology Gallery
Discover spectacular fossils of plants and animals that once inhabited the lands and waters of Texas.
Geology Gallery
See treasures from the geological collections, including meteorites, tektites and invertebrate fossils.
Texas Wildlife Gallery
Explore the museum’s legacy Texas Wildlife dioramas featuring the diverse animals and ecoregions of Texas.
Particles of Color
Explore the science and creativity behind new eco-friendly sequins developed by UT Austin faculty and students in an innovative special exhibition.
Future Exhibits
Discovery Center (opening Feb. 2025)
Get up close and personal with real fossils and engage in scientific thinking in a hands-on educational learning space!
Big Eye on Dark Skies (opening Sept. 2024)
Discover how astronomers explore the wonders of the universe in a new exhibit featuring a scale model of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET), the largest optical telescope in North America.