Experiential Learning

with The University of Alabama Museums

About UA Museums

The University of Alabama Museums are a division of the Barefield College of Arts & Sciences that encompasses four museums, two research departments, and the "Discovering Alabama" television program.

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The Alabama Museum of Natural History is the oldest museum in Alabama, which oversees one of the largest collections of mosasaur fossils in the world, and displays the only meteorite to have hit a human in recorded history.

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The Gorgas House Museum is the oldest structure on The University of Alabama campus and is one of only a handful of UA buildings that survived the Civil War (1861-1865).

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Moundville Archaeological Park is a 326-acre park on the former site of the political and ceremonial center of a vast Native American chiefdom. As one of the United States’ premier Native American heritage sites, it was once the site of a powerful prehistoric community that, at its peak, was America’s largest city north of Mexico.

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The Paul W. Bryant Museum is a sports museum that opened its doors to the public on October 8, 1988. It exhibits artifacts and memorabilia that trace the long history of University of Alabama Athletics using state-of-the-art displays enhanced by videos highlighting great players, plays, and games are produced from the museum’s archives.

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The DMRC oversees the management and curation of the Alabama Museum of Natural History (ALMNH) collections and develops interdisciplinary programs focusing on museum-based research. The ALMNH collections include more than five million objects, specimens, and artifacts from academic fields in entomology, invertebrate zoology, vertebrate zoology, paleontology, geology, history, archaeology, and many others.

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The University of Alabama's Office of Archaeological Research is one of the oldest cultural resource management programs in the nation. We are happy to provide internship opportunities for students interested in careers in pre- and post-contact archaeology, architectural history, remote sensing and GIS, and cultural resource and heritage management.

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The University of Alabama Museums aims to generate brand awareness to increase visitation to our spaces, participation in events, and memberships. This includes digital marketing as well as creating short-form and long-form video content to promote our museums and research.

University of Alabama student Debanjaly Sen shares her experience working with The University of Alabama Museums' Department of Museum Research & Collections.

University of Alabama student Sophia Biernat worked with The University of Alabama Museums' Department of Museum Research & Collections to develop a digital exhibition that explores Civil War arm and armaments, including bayonets and bullets, to tell a bigger story about Alabama.

Historical Stewardship: Students in Collections (Maggie Weatherwax)

University of Alabama student Maggie Weatherwax shares her experience working with The University of Alabama Museums' Department of Museum Research & Collections.

Historical Stewardship: Students in Collections (Summer Pettis)

University of Alabama student Summer Pettis shares her experience researching objects and working on a database project with The University of Alabama Museums' Department of Museum Research & Collections.

Historical Stewardship: Students in Collections (Hallie Brill)

University of Alabama student Hallie Brill introduces a Million Dollar Band project involving scanning slides and collecting material to preserve its history.

Fossil Ammonites: Uncovering Secrets about the Past

Rachel Mohr (Ph.D. Candidate, UA's Department of Geological Sciences and Museum Studies) explains what fossil ammonites are and how studying paleontology helped her research project on the genus 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙨 from Alabama.

The University of Alabama student Alyssa Dobbs-Langford shares her research about the life and legacy of Sam S. May, a janitor at UA, who became a self-taught and expert chemist and inventor.

Identity and Social Memory: William Smith

University of Alabama student William Smith talks about how he created the "William Crawford Gorgas and the Panama Canal" exhibit at the Gorgas House Museum.

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The University of Alabama

The University of Alabama is where tradition, innovation and a culture of excellence come together to create an educational journey unlike any other.

The University of Alabama Museums

The University of Alabama Museums is a division of the Barefield College of Arts and Sciences that encompasses four museums, two research departments, and the "Discovering Alabama" television program.

Barefield College of Arts & Sciences

One of the oldest and largest liberal arts colleges in Alabama, we are recognized nationally for the number of undergraduate and graduate students who receive national awards and scholarships. Internationally recognized scientists, writers, artists, and scholars teach in our classrooms and labs, where students work closely with professors who are not only experts in their disciplines but also creators of knowledge.