Naranjo Museum of Natural History
The Naranjo Museum of Natural History is a museum located in Lufkin, Texas.
Background
The museum was founded by Neal Naranjo, a doctor of neuropsychology. Naranjo has been a collector of fossils from a young age, and in 2006 he began showing his large collection of fossils to students in the Lufkin area and in 2012 they established a permanent, ten thousand square foot location.[1] The museum, which drew one hundred thousand visitors in its first full year of operation,[2] serves as a permanent location to display his collection, the highlight of which is a hadrosaur.[3][4]
The artifacts range from pre-historic to modern and include five dinosaur eggs thought to be more than sixty million years old as well as a replica T-Rex sourced from the Hell Creek Formation that the museum named Bubba Rex. It is the only tyrannosaurus in East Texas.[4][5][6]
References
- ^ Kirkland, Ariel (September 8, 2012). "Naranjo Museum of Natural History cuts ribbon on its new digs". The Lufkin News. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
- ^ Smith, Chuck (May 1, 2014). "Lufkin natural history museum lands NASA moon rock exhibit". Red River Radio. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
- ^ Viggiano, Brooke (June 22, 2021). "5 Must Do Things in Lufkin". Retrieved May 14, 2022.
- ^ a b Lynn, Penny. "Texas Gems & Backyard Treasures: Lufkin's Naranjo Museum of Natural History". Palestineherald.com. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
- ^ ""Bubba-Rex" goes on exhibit at Lufkin's Naranjo Museum of Natural History". KTRE. March 22, 2016. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
- ^ "T-Rex dinosaur fossil arrives at Naranjo Museum of Natural History". KTRE. Retrieved May 14, 2022.