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'''​The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History''' is a science, nature and cultural history museum established in 1961 at 3233 Briarcrest Drive in [[Bryan, Texas|Bryan]], [[Texas]]. Its collections are in the fields of [[archaeology]], [[botany]], conchology (sea shells), cultural history, [[geology]], mammalogy, ornithology, and [[paleontology]].<ref>{{cite web|url=​https://www.brazosvalleymuseum.org/|title=Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History|publisher=Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History|accessdate=June 1, 2020}}</ref>

'''​The Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History''' is a science, nature and cultural history museum established in 1961 at 3233 Briarcrest Drive in [[Bryan, Texas|Bryan]], [[Texas]]. Its collections are in the fields of [[archaeology]], [[botany]], conchology (sea shells), cultural history, [[geology]], mammalogy, ornithology, and [[paleontology]].<ref>{{cite web|url=​https://www.brazosvalleymuseum.org/|title=Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History|publisher=Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History|accessdate=June 1, 2020}}</ref>

The museum sought to display one of the four [[space shuttle]] orbiters to its collection. The orbiters were made available by [[NASA]] at the conclusion of the space shuttle program.<ref>"Shuttle might dock at campus," [[''Bryan-College Station Eagle'']], July 10, 2010.</ref> Former [[U.S. President]] [[George Herbert Walker Bush]], whose presidential library is in [[College Station, Texas|College Station]] several miles from the museum, expressed his support.<ref>"Bush support for shuttle," George H. W. Bush Presidential Library, You-Tube presentation no longer online.</ref>  Museum officials were initially positive about  their chances to be selected with the museum executive directory saying, ""I definitely think that we are going to get one of the shuttles,"<ref>{{cite web|name=Nell GreenfieldBoyce|title=NASA's Next Mission: Finding Homes For Shuttles|url=http://www.npr.org/2011/03/09/134358888/nasas-next-mission-finding-homes-for-shuttles|publisher=National Public Radio|date=March 9, 2011|accessdate=June 1, 2020}}</ref>  but in the end, the Bryan museum was not among those selected to receive an orbiter or simulators.  Instead, nearby [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station, Texas|College Station]] was selected to receive a full motion shuttle simulator used by astronauts in training.<ref>"No Shuttle in Brazos Valley, but Shuttle Simulator on the Way," KBTX-TV, date unavailable; no longer accessible on-line.</ref>  

The museum sought to display one of the four [[space shuttle]] orbiters to its collection. The orbiters were made available by [[NASA]] at the conclusion of the space shuttle program.<ref>"Shuttle might dock at campus," [[''Bryan-College Station Eagle'']], July 10, 2010.</ref> Former [[U.S. President]] [[George Herbert Walker Bush]], whose presidential library is in [[College Station, Texas|College Station]] several miles from the museum, expressed his support.<ref>"Bush support for shuttle," George H. W. Bush Presidential Library, You-Tube presentation no longer online.</ref>  Museum officials were initially positive about  their chances to be selected with the museum executive directory saying, ""I definitely think that we are going to get one of the shuttles,"<ref>{{cite web|name=Nell GreenfieldBoyce|title=NASA's Next Mission: Finding Homes For Shuttles|url=http://www.npr.org/2011/03/09/134358888/nasas-next-mission-finding-homes-for-shuttles|publisher=National Public Radio|date=March 9, 2011|accessdate=June 1, 2020}}</ref>  but in the end, the Bryan museum was not among those selected to receive an orbiter or simulators.  Instead, nearby [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station, Texas|College Station]] was selected to receive a full motion shuttle simulator used by astronauts in training.<ref>"No Shuttle in Brazos Valley, but Shuttle Simulator on the Way," KBTX-TV ([[CBS]] in Bryan, Texas), date unavailable; no longer accessible on-line.</ref>  

Its fossil cllection includes a 15-inch Paleozoic trilobite and complete skeletons of an [[Ice Age]] cave [[bear]], early [[wolf]], [[Sabre-toothed cat|sabre-toothed cat]], along with numerous other partial skeletons. [[Dinosaur]]s are represented by the skull, vertebrae, femur, arm, an enormous tail of a hadrosaurid specimen, teeth, and various bones of a [[Tyrannosaurus|Tyrannosaurus rex]]. The hosaurid tail is unique for its fossilized skin.​The museum maintains memberships in the American Alliance of Museums, the Natural Science Collections Alliance, and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections.​

Its fossil cllection includes a 15-inch Paleozoic trilobite and complete skeletons of an [[Ice Age]] cave [[bear]], early [[wolf]], [[Sabre-toothed cat|sabre-toothed cat]], along with numerous other partial skeletons. [[Dinosaur]]s are represented by the skull, vertebrae, femur, arm, an enormous tail of a hadrosaurid specimen, teeth, and various bones of a [[Tyrannosaurus|Tyrannosaurus rex]]. The hosaurid tail is unique for its fossilized skin.​The museum maintains memberships in the American Alliance of Museums, the Natural Science Collections Alliance, and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections.​