The HSU Natural History Museum partners with the Humboldt County Library to offer free coloring kits to local families. Pick up a coloring kit at any Humboldt County Library curbside pick-up. There are two kinds of kits each feature birds and animals - one kit has simpler coloring sheets and a package of crayons and the other kit has more detailed coloring sheets and a box of colored pencils. Request whichever one is best for your child. The HSU Natural History Museum would love to display the finished artwork.

An anonymous buyer, during a Christie's auction in New York, breaks the record for the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever sold. This T Rex fossil, named Stan, is one of the best preserved T Rex skeletons in the world. 

The HSU Natural History Museum has a new look to our online presence!  Thank you to HSU Marketing & Communications Web Team for working with the museum to create our new site.

We will remain closed through the summer in line with HSU. The NHM plans to reopen early Fall (in person if safe, or virtually if need be).

We have lots of new inventory this year from moon telescopes to solar paper. Investigate nature with an easy to use microscope, models, science kits, insect magnifiers, and identification guides. Learn about geology and Earth's fascinating past through fish fossils, shark teeth, dinosaur bones, dinsoaur replicas, and more. We have a variety of interesting and educational books for all ages!

Looking through our shop is always free.

The museum has a new LITTLE FREE LIBRARY donated by Philip and Manette Gerstle in remembrance of Ken Aalto, a retired HSU geology professor who helped map some of our local rocks and was admired in our community.

Little Free Libraries are increasing throughout the state and are a great way to make connections throughout a community.

Feel free to take a book and put one in its place.