The Build-A-Museum Team aims to encourage LSU to investigate building a great, accredited Museum of Natural History on the LSU main campus in Baton Rouge and then to support the museum’s development.

Our model is the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Dr. Michael Mares and Peter Tirrell from Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History visited LSU on May 6, 7, and 8 and will do a report for us on the potential for a Louisiana Museum of Natural History at LSU as a unified, accredited, full service museum (research, teaching, displays, outreach). In 2004, the American Association of Museums Accreditation Commission Chairman commended SNOMNH for its strategic planning as follows "The commission commends the museum on its growth since the last review and on its strategic planning process, which we find could be a model for others", wrote Commission Chair Martin Sullivan in a letter congratulating SNOMNH on its accreditation, in its newly built facility.

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Download Michael Mares' Article in BioSciences Magazine : Natural Science Collections: America's Irreplaceable Resource