About the Museum

The Alabama Museum of Natural History, located in Smith Hall, the first building to be built on the University of Alabama campus in the twentieth century, is one of the finest examples of Classical Revival architecture in the region.

Smith Hall

Experience the natural diversity of Alabama through exhibits from the Age of Dinosaurs, the Coal Age, and the Ice Age. View extensive collections of geology, zoology, mineralogy, paleontology, ethnology, history, and photography. Explore the Alabama Museum of Natural History housed in historic Smith Hall, one of the finest examples of Beaux-Arts architecture in the region. See the Hodges meteorite, the only meteorite know to have struck a human.

The Museum is located on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Capstone Drive on The University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa.

To reach the Museum from Highway 82, take the University Boulevard exit and proceed west to Sixth Avenue. If you are arriving on I-59, exit onto I-359 and take the University Boulevard exit to Sixth Avenue. Go north one block.

The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The Alabama Museum of Natural History
Box 870340, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0340
For more information or to schedule a group tour, call (205) 348-7550
or e-mail: programs@bama.ua.edu

Last update: 06/14/07