Dancing with Dinos Gala 2025

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Artifact Identification Weekend 2025

Artifact Identification Weekend

January 18 & 19, 2025

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New Museum Hours

Student Tours

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Best of Lufkin

$40 Family Membership

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Now more than ever, the Naranjo Museum needs your support to help further our mission of educating East Texas. Click on our latest post to see how you can support Lufkin’s only Natural History Museum.

Visit The Naranjo Museum of Natural History

Tickets Price
Age 3 & under Free
Age 4 to 18 $5.00
Adults $8.00

Hours of Operation
Monday: Closed
Tues. - Sat.: 10 AM to 6 PM
Sunday: 1 PM to 6 PM
Final Admission: 5 PM

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(936) 639-3466


Currently happening at the museum

Artifact Identification Weekend

The Naranjo Museum of Natural History in Lufkin, TX will be hosting an Artifact Identification Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, January 18th & 19th, 2025. Saturday will be 10am-5pm and Sunday 1pm-5 ...

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Volunteer at the NMNH

Join a team of volunteers that help out with special projects and events! If you would like to be a museum volunteer, fill out our form below and email it to info@naranjomuseum.org or come into the ...

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Have a Birthday Party at the Naranjo Museum!

Have your next DINOMITE party by renting the Naranjo Museum Party Room! Your party room rental comes with a full day use of the room, tables and chairs. Museum admission for up to 30 guests is also ...

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Archaeopteryx

New Archaeopteryx, Naranjo Museum of Natural History Walk by the new archaeopteryx exhibit and you can hear what they might have sounded like in the late Jurassic. Archaeopteryx, genus&nbs ...

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Permian Period

The large specimens are complete fossil animals. The lava and flat round sand stone were found on site. The large stones have footprints and tail drags. The Permian Period saw the diversification ...

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Cretaceous Period: Mary Ann Hadrosaur

  Mary Ann Hadrosaur was found in the Hell Creek Formation of Montana by the Naranjo expedition in 2008. She lived 68 million years ago in a swampy environment. Hadrosaurs were known as duck-b ...

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Radiometric Dating and Cretaceous North America, Dig Pit

Radiometric dating is a process used to date rocks and fossils after they are found. Willard F. Libby was one of the first men to understand and discover this process. He won the Nobel Prize in 1960 f ...

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Donate

Help Keep This Wonderful Attraction in East Texas Donate to the Annual Fund The Naranjo Museum of Natural History will serve as a source of discovery and inspiration for East Texas families and as a ...

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