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University of Wisconsin Space Place: Madison: Dane: Southern Savanna: Science: website, education and public outreach center of the UW-Madison Astronomy Department, space science exhibits and activities, roof top deck for sky viewing UW–Madison Geology Museum: Madison: Dane: Southern Savanna: Natural history: Geology, fossils, dinosaurs
For much of the 20th century, the council chamber was the meeting place of the City of Rochester [7] but ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged Borough of Medway was formed in 1974. [8] The guildhall became the home of the Guildhall Museum in 1979. [9]
University of Wisconsin Science Hall is a building on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It is significant for its association with Charles R. Van Hise, "who led the Department of Mineralogy and Geology to national prominence" and then served as president of the university. [3] The building was constructed in 1888.
The Boaz Mastodon on display at the UW-Madison Geology Museum. The Boaz mastodon is the skeleton of a mastodon found near Boaz, Wisconsin, USA, in 1897. A fluted quartzite spear point found near the Boaz mastodon suggests that humans hunted mastodons in southwestern Wisconsin. It is currently on display at the University of Wisconsin Geology ...
The UW–Madison Geology Museum (UWGM) is a geology and paleontology museum housed in Weeks Hall, in the southwest part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. The museum's main undertakings are exhibits, outreach to the public, and research. It has the second highest attendance of any museum at the University of Wisconsin–Madison ...
The Stock Pavilion is an exhibit hall built in 1908 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with its exterior styled like a medieval housebarn. In 1985 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places for architectural significance.
In 1848 the University of Wisconsin was established by the state legislature - the same year Wisconsin became a state. [7] But there was not a single building yet. In February 1849, under the mantle of the new university, Dr. John Sterling commenced a preparatory school for twenty boys downtown in a room of the Madison Female Academy. [8]
Guildhall Museum can refer any of the Guild halls in England now used as museums, including Boston Guildhall; Carlisle Guildhall; Leicester Guildhall;