University of Kansas Natural History Museum

University of Kansas Natural History Museum is in Dyche Hall at 1345 Jayhawk Blvd., on the University of Kansas campus. The museum features native snakes and insects; a working beehive; fossils of animals from the Cretaceous period; and exhibits about microbes, parasites and global ecology. The museum also is home to mounted animals, including Comanche, a 7th Cavalry horse that survived the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn.

Time: Allow 2 hours minimum.