Exhibit designed to showcase Nebraska

LINCOLN, Neb.

The University of Nebraska State Museum of Natural History has opened a new exhibit that shows how Nebraska got to be “an amazing state,” the museum director said.

The fourth-floor museum space at Morrill Hall on the main Lincoln campus will hold the new permanent telling the story of Nebraska’s natural past, from the species that roamed the plains to how humans interact with the land today.

Benefactors and more than 50 experts helped create the $11.4 million “Cherish Nebraska” exhibit, charting Nebraska’s “landscape through time,” museum director Susan Weller told the Lincoln Journal Star .

The exhibit opened Saturday and is designed to provide Nebraskans one all-embracing message about their home, she said: “It is an amazing state.”

The exhibit will feature seven galleries that show the state from it prehistoric past to the present.