Bravos Valley Museum of Natural History
Bravos Valley Museum of Natural History is a museum in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 86 m. Red Hill stands 143 m to the north-northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Brazos County Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Texas Brazos Trail passes 1.9 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History is a science, nature, and cultural history museum in Bryan, Texas, United States. The museum also maintains memberships in American Alliance of Museums, Natural Science Collections Alliance, and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History maintains collections in the fields of archaeology, botany, conchology, cultural history, geology, mammalogy, ornithology, and paleontology. The museum was among 14 to be considered to display one of the four space shuttle orbiters made available by NASA at the end of the space shuttle program to its new Museum of Science and History Former president George H. W. Bush, whose presidential library is several miles from the museum, has expressed his support. Museum officials were initially very positive about their chances of being selected, with the museum executive directory saying, "I definitely think that we are going to get one of the shuttles." The museum was not selected to receive an orbiter, finishing last in scoring, with the NASA selection community citing significant concerns about the museum's attendance levels and risks to the orbiter in transportation to the museum. Nearby Texas A&M University was selected to receive a full motion shuttle simulator used by astronauts in training. The Frithiof Fossil Collection includes a 15-inch Paleozoic trilobite and complete skeletons of an Ice Age cave bear, early wolf, Saber-toothed cat, along with numerous other partial skeletons. Dinosaurs are represented by the skull, vertebrae, femur, arm, an enormous tail of a hadrosaurid dinosaur, teeth and various bones of a Tyrannosaurus rex and Albertosaurus, and parts of a gigantic Camarasaurus, Triceratops, and Maiasaura. The hadrosaurid tail is unique in that it is one of the few fossils with fossilized skin. The Museum houses the complete skeletons of Psittacosaurus, an early ancestor of Triceratops, and a complete Confuciusornis, a relative of both the raptor-like dinosaurs and modern birds. Rare, virtually complete skeletons of early mammals, fish, and reptiles are also available for viewing.
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Dates from 1961.
Wikidata Q4959022, matched on coordinates and name (23 m apart).
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
- 1.9 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 24.0 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Brazos County Park: 0.1 mi
- Bob Cherry Park: 1.2 mi
- Austin's Colony Park: 1.3 mi
- Tiffany Park: 1.3 mi
- Park Hudson: 1.4 mi
- Allen Academy: 0.4 mi
- Town of Boonville: 0.7 mi
- Wesa Weddington: 0.7 mi
- Boonville Cemetery: 0.7 mi
- Moravian (Czech) Cemetery: 1.8 mi
- Children's Museum of Brazos Valley: 1.6 mi
- Brazos Valley African American Museum: 2.9 mi
- Children's Museum of Brazos Valley: 3.1 mi
- George Bush Presidential Library & Museum: 5.2 mi
- James A. Baker, III Pavilion: 5.3 mi
- Rotating LEGO Death Star: 3.1 mi
- Art 979 Art Gallery: 3.2 mi
- Square One Art Gallery: 3.2 mi
- How to Build a Sphere Out of Cubes: 3.4 mi
- Our Lady of Victory: 3.4 mi
- Haswell Park Picnic #1: 2.3 mi
- Haswell Park Picnic #4: 2.3 mi
- Haswell Park Picnic #2: 2.3 mi
- Haswell Park Picnic #3: 2.4 mi
- 1st Methodist Park: 2.8 mi
- Texas A&M Horticulture Gardens: 2.9 mi
- Cynthia Woods Mitchell Garden: 3.5 mi
- Leach Teaching Gardens: 4.5 mi
- Mount Aggie: 4.8 mi
- Red Hill: 17.8 mi
- TXDAR Centennial Park - Old Nashville Site: 22.6 mi
- Picnic Area: 24.5 mi
- Earth Art: 3.2 mi
- Hidalgo Bluffs: 21.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Bravos Valley Museum of Natural History. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hill | NNW 331° | 143 m | 17.8 mi |
| Mount Aggie | SSW 201° | 96.3 m | 4.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:30 | 19:05 | 19:37 |
| June solstice | 06:24 | 19:56 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 07:14 | 18:52 | 19:23 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 16:52 | 17:29 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 52 | 55 | 62 | 69 | 76 | 83 | 85 | 86 | 81 | 71 | 60 | 53 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 4.9 | 3.3 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — College STN Easterwood FLD, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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