{"id":446426,"date":"2026-09-24T17:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446426\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T17:08:12","slug":"museum-at-texas-tech-university-in-lubbock-serving-the-area-for-9-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/446426\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum at Texas Tech University in Lubbock serving the area for 9 decades"},"content":{"rendered":"

LUBBOCK, Texas (KFDA) – The Museum at Texas Tech University first started in 1929 as an idea from the West Texas Museum Association. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey were very excited about it and they wanted to have a museum here, particularly on the Texas Tech campus,\u201d said Dr. Aaron Pan, executive director. <\/p>\n

The museum is a major resource for the community.<\/p>\n

The 200,000 square-foot covers several topics, including anthropology, art, clothing, textiles, history, natural sciences and technology. <\/p>\n

\"TheThe Museum at Texas Tech University first started in 1929 as an idea from the West Texas Museum Association.(kfda)<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s basically something for everybody,\u201d said Pan. \u201cWe have a really large collection. We\u2019re actually one of the largest collections in the United States with close to almost 10 million objects and specimens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pan says museums and cultural institutions offer a wonderful story about understanding the region to visitors. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe live in a material world, so you\u2019re part of that, you can read something, you can kind of understand. You can maybe sort of picture scale. But when you actually see a large Quetzalcoatlus in front of you and seeing the size of it that is the size of an F-16, see what it looks like compared to you, that\u2019s pretty impressive,\u201d said Pan. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s one thing to read or see artifacts on a digital page. It\u2019s another to see the details and how things were made in person. <\/p>\n

\"TheThe Museum at Texas Tech University first started in 1929 as an idea from the West Texas Museum Association.(KFDA)<\/p>\n

Pan says part of why the museum covers so many different topics is because of a master\u2019s program teaching future museum professionals. <\/p>\n

As visitors walk in, they first see the large dinosaur skeletons on display. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut what\u2019s relaly great is I think that they\u2019re really surprised as they walk in and they have an idea of what they\u2019re going to see here, and they turn the corner and it\u2019s a very different subject. It\u2019s a fantastic topic that they didn\u2019t really think about,\u201d said Pan.<\/p>\n

Pan says some visitors came to the musuem specifically for the dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures and ended up falling in love with the art pieces.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Museum at Texas Tech University first started in 1929 as an idea from the West Texas Museum Association.(KFDA)<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen people who are only here for the art and then they found something fantastic within our historical collections,\u201d said Pan. \u201cSo it\u2019s really exciting around, there\u2019s always something new around the corner.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Museum at Texas Tech University is located at 3301 4th St. <\/p>\n

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