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Museums

Lincoln’s museums are some of the most well-known in the nation. Check out Nebraska’s only antique tractor museum which displays over 40 historic tractors that showcase developments in the agricultural industry. Or stop by the National Roller Skating museum for a quick peak at a favorite childhood pastime!

Lincoln Children's Museum

The Lincoln Children's Museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play. Featuring three floors of highly-interactive, fun exhibits the museum offers creative, hands-on experiences that foster learning through play for children and youth. Ranked among the top 20 children's museums in the U.S., the Lincoln Children's Museum features over 40 exhibits including a three-story apple tree, full-sized airplane, kid-sized prairie dog tunnels, Lunar Lander, Nebraska Husker sports center, fire department and tot town for our smallest visitors. Make plans today to visit the Lincoln Children's Museum and discover the power of play!
Hours: 9:30 am-5pm Tuesday -Saturday; 1-5 pm Sunday
Closed Monday and major holidays
Cost: Admission charged; group rates available.
Wheelchair accessible
1420 P Street
(402) 477-4000
www.lincolnchildrensmuseum.org
Frank H. Woods Telephone Pioneer Museum

Experience communication antiquities and learn how the telephone transformed a segmented nation into one large community. View replicas of Alexander Graham Bell's original telephones.
See an impressive display of wooden wall and candlestick phones, as well as the colorful telephone sets of the "art deco" 50's and 60's. View the beauty and sparkle of the "Crown Jewels of the Wire" - the glass insulators. Harken back to a simpler time when the operator had to place your call and you shared your line with as many as ten other customers.
Hours: 1-4 p.m. Sunday, or by appointment. Closed all holiday weekends.
Tours: Guided tours available upon request. Call and leave a message. Someone will return a call to schedule your tour.
Cost: No fee, goodwill donations encouraged.
2047 M Street
(402) 436-4640
www.WoodsTelephonePioneers.org
International Quilt Study Center

The Center is home to more than 2,300 quilts, including the Ardis and Robert James Collection, Robert Cargo Collection of African American Quilts, the Jonathan Holstein Collection and Kathryn Berenson French Textile Collections. Visit the website for exhibition and activity schedules.
Hours: 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday
1:30-4:30 p.m. Sunday
Closed Mondays and University schedule breaks.
Tours: Please pre-arrange for groups by calling 472-6549.
Cost: $5 adults; $3 age 5-18; free under age 5
1523 N. 33rd Street
(402) 472-6549
http://www.quiltstudy.org
Lester F. Larsen Tractor Test and Power Museum

View exhibits of early hand tools dating back to the 1700s to modern day educational tractors. See the evolution of food production from colonial times through the introduction of diesel powered tractors.
Check out the tractor model that prompted the Nebraska Tractor Test Law and construction of the testing lab building in 1919, which is now the museum building.
Hours: 9 a.m. to noon and 1-4 p.m. weekdays. Call for weekend hours.
Tours: Tours of the operational test lab are available.
Cost: Suggested Donations: $3 for adult, $1 for child, $5 for family.
UNL East Campus
(402) 472-8389
http://tractormuseum.unl.edu
Directions: Take the East Campus Loop off Holdrege Street to 35th Street. Go north to Fair Street. Turn east. Museum visitor parking areas in front and back of building.
National Museum of Roller Skating

Believe it or not, inline skates are not new! Only in Lincoln will you find the world's largest collection of roller skates and roller skating memorabilia. Displays of skates, posters and other artifacts depict the sport and the industry from its past to the present. The museum is located within the headquarters of USA Roller Sports.
Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Closed Saturdays, Sundays and holidays
Cost: Free. Donations are appreciated.
4730 South Street
(402) 483-7551, ext. 16
www.rollerskatingmuseum.com
Nebraska State Historical Society's Museum of Nebraska History

Discover Nebraska's many stories told in beaded leather and fabric quilts, a Pawnee earth lodge and a WWII living room, a Kawasaki motorcycle, a Cushman Motors airborne scooter and much more. Visit the new Investigation Station, a place where kids and grown-ups alike can learn about history hands-on. New for 2009: Saving Memories: Scrapbooks, Photo Albums, Home Movies and Ledger Drawings and Crazy Quilts. Find Nebraska products in the museum store. Call for information on programs.
Hours: 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; 1-4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Tours: Self-guided tours are available during museum hours. For guided tours for groups of 15 to 100, please give three weeks notice, if possible.
Cost: $2 donation encouraged.
15th & P Streets
(402) 471-4754
www.nebraskahistory.org
Red Wing Pottery Museum

The Redwing Stoneware Company started in 1877 in Red Wing, Minnesota and distributed its wares throughout the U.S. More than 5,000 pieces of the famous pottery are artfully displayed, with pieces dating from 1877 and include the earliest pieces of stoneware through dinnerware and art pottery.
The collection includes cookie jars, several pieces of Grayline or Sponge Band and a one-of-a-kind 70-gallon jug made in 1923. Representative samples of all the patterns and hundreds of examples of the different styles of art pottery and dinnerware are exhibited.
Hours: By appointment only.
Cost: Admission free.
3901 Normal Blvd, Suite 200
ldschleich@aol.com
(402) 489-6508 or
rsplittger@hotmail.com
(402) 770-7600
University of Nebraska State Museum - Morrill Hall & Mueller Planetarium

Look for the mammoth! Early hunters prized the mammoth for food, tools and warm clothing. The life-sized bronze Columbian mammoth that embellishes the entrance of this natural history museum takes us back in time to when these huge mammals wandered the Plains.
The collections found inside include one of the world's largest collections of mammal fossils. Additionally, Elephant Hall offers a remarkable display of modern and fossil elephants along with a mural of Ice Age mammoths. Visit the Age of Dinosaurs in the interactive Mesozoic Gallery. Learn how evolution works in the new Explore Evolution Gallery. The Galleries of Ancient Life, Plains Indians and Hall of Nebraska Wildlife further interpret Nebraska's natural historic past. A hands-on Discovery Center is a favorite for kids of all ages.
Also check out the museum's Mueller Planetarium's schedule of sky shows.
Hours: 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-Saturday; 1:30-4:30 p.m., Sunday and holidays
Closed Thanksgiving, December 24th and 25th, and New Year's Day.
Cost: $5 for adults; $3 for children over 4 years old; $10 for families.
Just south of 14th and Vine Streets
(402) 472-2642
Museum Web Site: www.museum.unl.edu
Mueller Planetarium Web Site: www.spacelaser.com

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