The CRCS Build-a-Museum Team Newsletter

Announcement - November 30, 2003 :

We can get ahead of Austin

Dr. Edward C. Theriot, Director of the Texas Memorial Museum of Science and History and Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of Molecular Evolution at The University of Texas at Austin, had the following to say when asked if the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is a good model for a group trying to develop a university museum. The emphasis is his: "... SNOHM is THE outstanding RECENT example of a university getting its act together to produce a 'unified, full service natural history museum'. It has certainly come the farthest in the shortest period of time, and I can only hope that our efforts here at the TMM will come to fruition as have those of Mike Mares' and the rest of the folks who have helped build SNOHM. I can think of no other modern natural history museum, free-standing or university, that was an assemblage of collections in greatly substandard housing scattered about a university just a decade ago. "