This list of museums and colleges includes locations exhibiting mastodon fossils.
Location | City | Notes | Reference |
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Universalmuseum Joanneum | Graz | [1] |
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Joseph Brant Museum | Burlington, Ontario | [2] | ||
Royal Ontario Museum | Toronto, Ontario | [3] | ![]() | |
Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History | Halifax | [4] |
Location | City | Notes | Reference |
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Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt | Darmstadt | [5] |
Location | City | Notes | Reference |
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Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze (University of Florence) | Florence | [6] |
Location | City | Notes | Reference | |
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National Museum of Nature and Science | Tokyo | ![]() |
Location | City | Notes | Reference | |
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Natural History Museum | London | [7] |
Location | City | Notes | Reference |
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Alabama Museum of Natural History | Tuscaloosa | [8] |
Location | City | Reference |
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Arkansas State University Museum | Jonesboro | [9] |
Location | City | Notes | Reference | |
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La Brea Tar Pits | Los Angeles | [10] | ![]() | |
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County | Los Angeles | [11] | ![]() | |
Western Science Center | Hemet | Nicknamed "Max" | [12][13] | |
San Diego Natural History Museum | San Diego | [14] | ![]() |
Location | City | Notes | Reference |
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Peabody Museum of Natural History (Yale University) | New Haven | [15] |
Location | City | Notes | Reference | |
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Brevard Museum of History and Natural Science | Cocoa | [16] | ||
Florida Museum of Natural History (University of Florida) | Gainesville | [17] | ![]() | |
Museum of Florida History | Tallahassee | [18] |
Location | City | Notes | Reference | |
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Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument | Hagerman | [19] | ![]() |
Location | City | Notes | Reference | |
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Fryxell Geology Museum at Augustana College | Rock Island | [20] | ![]() | |
Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County | Libertyville | [21] | ||
Field Museum of Natural History | Chicago | [22] | ![]() | |
Illinois State Museum | Springfield | [23] | ||
Phillips Park (Visitor Center and Mastodon Gallery) | Aurora | [24] | ![]() | |
Wheaton College | Wheaton | Perry Mastodon | [25] | ![]() |
Location | City | Notes | Reference |
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L.C. Bates Museum | Hinckley | [31] |
Location | City | Notes | Reference |
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Beneski Museum of Natural History (Amherst College) | Amherst | [32] |
Location | City | Notes | Reference |
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Maryland Center for History and Culture |
Location | City | Notes | Reference | |
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Cranbrook Institute of Science | Bloomfield Hills | [33] | ||
University of Michigan Museum of Natural History | Ann Arbor | [34] | ![]() |
Location | City | Notes | Reference | |
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Mastodon State Historic Site | Imperial | [35] | ![]() |
Location | City | Notes | Reference | |
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University of Nebraska State Museum | Lincoln |
Location | City | Notes | Reference | |
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Rutgers University Geology Museum | New Brunswick | [36] | ||
Sussex County Historical Society Museum | Newton | [37] |
Location | City | Notes | Reference | |
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American Museum of Natural History | New York | [38] | ![]() | |
Bear Mountain State Park (Geology Museum) | [39] | |||
Buffalo Museum of Science | Buffalo | [40] | ||
Cambridge High School (New York) | Cambridge | [41] | ||
Museum of the Earth | Ithaca | [42] | ![]() | |
New York State Museum | Albany | [43] | ![]() | |
Orange County Community College | Middletown | [44] | ||
Rochester Museum and Science Center | Rochester | [45] | ||
Museum Village of Old Smith's Clove | Monroe |
Location | City | Notes | Reference | |
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North Dakota Heritage Center | Bismarck | [46] | ![]() |
Location | City | Noyes | Reference | |
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Cleveland Museum of Natural History | Cleveland | [47] | ||
Ohio History Connection (Ohio History Center) | Columbus | [48] | ![]() | |
William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum (Discover World) | Canton | [49] |
Location | City | Notes | Reference |
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Tualatin Public Library | Tualatin | [50] |
Location | City | Notes | Reference | |
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History | Pittsburgh | |||
State Museum of Pennsylvania | Harrisburg | [51][52] | ![]() |
Location | City | Notes | Reference | |
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Tennessee State Museum | Nashville | [53] | ||
Tipton County Museum | Covington | [54] | ![]() |
Location | City | Notes | Reference | |
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Houston Museum of Natural Science | Houston | [55] | ![]() |
Location | City | Notes | Reference | |
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Museum and Arts Center | Sequim | [56] | ![]() |
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National Museum of Natural History | [57] |
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Milwaukee Public Museum | Milwaukee | [58] | ![]() | |
UW Madison Geology Museum | Madison | [59] | ![]() |
The giant mastodon skeleton still stands in the entrance to the second-floor geological and life history exhibit; the ground floor still has its large collection of zoology specimens and wildlife dioramas; and the museum's wonderful Art Nouveau collection is still in the basement.
In Tallahassee, visitors at the Museum of Florida History can view "Herman," a mastodon skeleton recovered by FGS staff in 1930 from the depths of Wakulla Springs.
Almost all the fossils on display were found in Florida. Paul Roth, a volunteer with the Florida Paleontological Society, said Florida has a variety of fossils and creatures. "(There are) mammoths and mastodons, there's other extinct creatures like the American cheetah, there's just, there's a lot of fossils in Florida," Roth said.
augustana mastodon.
The bones have been displayed at several museums over the years and today are showcased in the Mastodon Gallery at the Phillips Park Visitors Center.
Steve Butz, a science teacher at Cambridge High School, says the New York State Museum has permanently loaned parts of the Vassar Mastadon's skeleton to his school.
If you want to touch a hunk of roughly 4.56-billion-year-old meteorite that predates Earth, view fossilized bones from two mastodons that wandered western Wisconsin during the Ice Age or learn more about the universe, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum is well worth a visit.