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The University of Nebraska State Museum is Nebraska’s own premier museum of natural history. The State Museum collects, preserves and interprets objects and associated data through research about the natural world. The collections, with special interest in Nebraska and the northern Great Plains, are the basis of the university’s archive of global, biological, cultural and geological diversity.

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University of Nebraska State Museum Education Fund


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State Museum Development Fund

A gift to this endowed fund supports the museum’s comprehensive programming and exhibits. Annual net income from the endowment provides ongoing support for the University of Nebraska State Museum.


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When you make a gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation you can trust that it will be used in the way in which it was intended. That’s a promise we’ve kept with our donors since our organization was founded in 1936.