A Changing World Gallery

Take a journey through Texas during the Mesozoic Era (~66 million to 251.9 million years) in the A Changing World: Dinosaurs, Diversity, and Drifting Continents Gallery. Discover the Triassic beasts who walked the Earth of the once lush marshlands here in our very own Texas Panhandle.

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Biodiversity of the Llano Estacado

Biodiversity of the Llano Estacado features an in-depth look at this living landscape, explores the importance of biodiversity, and the 7 major habitats which supports a variety of wildlife.

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Diamond M Collection

The Diamond M Collection came to the Museum in 1993, with 380 American paintings, drawings, and sculptures from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries and bolding illustrates the development of Western American narratives. In this new curation, The Helen DeVitt Jones Curator of Art Tracee Robertson focuses on the stories and artworks of the women included in the Diamond M collection which feature not only female artists but women depicted in the artworks themselves.

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Dr. Robert Neff and Louise Willson Arnold Gallery

Field of Vision is the inaugural exhibition in the newly constructed Dr. Robert Neff and Louise Willson Arnold Gallery. Honoring these distinguished Lubbock residents, the exhibition features selections from more than 550 works of art that illuminated the Arnolds' home for many decades and were donated in 2017 to the Museum of Texas Tech University Association.

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Ice Age on the Southern Plains

This gallery features Pleistocene megafauna and the regional landscape through mounted skeletons and murals. New to the gallery is the American Lion (about 25% larger than the African lion), an iconic apex predator of the grasslands. It joins the large cat predators of the Llano Estacado along with the saber-tooth cat on display. Other new additions are a skull of the Pleistocene camel and the shell of the large, extinct Puttnam’s box turtle. All the animals represented in the murals and by the mounts reflect the regional area’s distant natural history as revealed by ongoing research activities of the Lubbock Lake Landmark.

Talkington Gallery of Art

The Talkington Gallery of Art combines works from the Museum's collection with a significant donation from Margaret and J.T. Talkington, long-time Lubbock business and civic leaders. The gallery features selections from 20th and 21st century art of the Southwestern United States. This art reflects the people and landscapes of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, portions of Colorado, and Utah. No particular type of landscape represents the Southwest, and no singular art style defines it. The exhibit samples many divergent paths that artists from the Southwest have followed, from realism to romanticism, from impressionism to expressionism, from minimalism to conceptualism, and more.

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William C. and Evelyn M. Davies Gallery of Southwest Indian Art

The William C. and Evelyn M. Davies Gallery of Southwest Indian Art displays extensive collections of art and handicraft, representing more than 20 Native American tribes from across the greater southwestern region. Now part of the holding of the Museum, the Davies amassed their collection through studying, visiting museums and pueblos, and cultivating relationships with the artists themselves. The collections feature both historic and modern works, including ceramics, textiles, wood carvings, basketry, and mixed media. These pieces demonstrate the patterns and styles of the artists as well as individual tribes and represent a variety of utilitarian, trade, and creative items.