University of Arkansas Museum Collections Tour
Tours & Day Trips | Available
The University of Arkansas Museum traces its beginnings to an early geology teaching collection, which is documented to 1873. From a modest beginning, the collections have since grown to include millions of objects across the fields of archeology, ethnology, history, geology, and zoology.
Join Laurel Lamb, one of the museum’s curators, on a behind-the-scenes tour of the U of A Collections Facility. Whether you are a museum lover in general or like rocks, fossils, animals, or history more specifically, there will be something for everyone to enjoy. We will start off with a presentation about the Museum’s history and present-day offerings. After the presentation, the collections tour will begin and last approximately one hour, depending on the group’s interests and questions. Bring your walking shoes and get ready to explore! The group is to meet in the lobby area, just inside the entrance.
Activity Level: 1
This program will meet in person at UA Museum, located at 2475 N Hatch Ave, Fayetteville, AR 72704. Please read your class reminder email for the exact room location.
Class changes occasionally happen; please watch for (and read) announcements or emails from OLLI regarding your class.
Click on the link below for a Google map shot of our location:
UA Museum
Laurel Lamb
Laurel Lamb is a curator at the University of Arkansas Museum, where she cares for the collections and leads public outreach efforts. Lamb earned her graduate degree in heritage preservation with a concentration in public history at Georgia State University. In her years within the museum field she has worked at a variety of institutions, from a natural history museum to a corporate archive to an art museum. She has a special interest in collections accessibility and engagement, as well as material culture studies.