WELCOME to the METEORITE MUSEUM at the UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
Hours of operation Fall 2024
Tuesday, Thursday – 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, 2:00 PM to 3:00PM
Friday – 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Closed Saturday-Monday, Wednesday, and all UNM observed holidays.
May close at 2PM on Fridays for the Earth & Planetary Sciences Weekly Colloquia
Closure updates:
Closed April 10-12, 2024
Groups 7+ please email iom@unm.edu to make a group appointment before visiting the museum. This includes all visiting school groups and clubs.
For any questions or concerns please email iom@unm.edu.
There is no admission fee to visit the Meteorite Museum and tours are self-guided.
The Meteorite Museum is open when student employees are available. The hours are subject to change without notice, according to the students' availability.
The physical address for the building, Northrop Hall, is 221 Yale Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131. Paid parking is available for campus visitors. Please view this map for parking information.
WE DO NOT INSPECT SUSPECTED METEORITES
The Meteorite Museum, as part of the Institute of Meteoritics, opened in 1974 and is a major educational resource for the university and New Mexico schools. The museum displays many fine samples of stony, stony iron, and iron meteorites from the institute’s collection. The museum is visited by thousands of people every year, including many elementary and high school students from Albuquerque and the surrounding area. The meteorites on display in the museum are only a small part of the research and teaching collection, which includes over 5000 specimen of over 650 samples. All the meteorites in the collection are available for study by researchers within the institute and throughout the world.
The Meteorite Museum is located in Northrop Hall on the Main Campus of the University of New Mexico. It houses many meteorites from the extensive collection of the Institute of Meteoritics. The highlight of the Museum is a one-ton piece of the stony meteorite, Norton County, that fell in Kansas in 1948.
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