Although some people may think of museums as dusty old attics where nothing ever changes, in reality, the Centennial Museum is almost always juggling events with a number of balls in the air at any one time. This is your page to help you keep up with what's going on. You also may Search within the main pages of the website.
The Museum will be closed on those Saturdays that home football games are held. Remaining dates are:
An introductory course: The Natural History of the Chihuahuan Desert is now on-line.
An on-line course on the study of mammals now is available": Mammalogy on the Web".
The "Pleistocene Vertebrates of New Mexico and Trans-Pecos Texas" is now online.
We have added limited searching ability to the Chihuahuan Desert pages. You can now search by keywords for animals, plants, Desert Diary content, and permanent items on the Museum's main page.
The list of plants that likely will be available for FloraFEST 2010 in April is now available. For a more extensive gallery of Chihuahuan Desert plants, visit our Chihuahuan Desert native plant section.
A list of Centennial Museum Publications is available on the web, and Wynn Anderson's Recommended Southwestern Native Plants for the El Paso/Las Cruces Area is finally available in PDF format.
Wynn Anderson's article on Apache Plume has been added to our PDF presentations.
Be sure and visit the Special Exhibits page. These exhibits change over time, bringing you something new several times a year. Many are traveling exhibits that are created by other museums to allow peoples to enjoy collections otherwise inaccessible; other exhibits are the creations of our own, talented El Pasoans.
