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Natural History Museum
School of Sciences and Mathematics Building, 202 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC Phone: 843.953.5589About
The Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences is home to a Natural History Museum that displays more than 3,000 fossil specimens in a new facility. The displays include: Dinosaurs, Crinoids, Oligocene Mammals of North America, Mosasaurs, Cave Bears, Pleistocene Mammals of the Carolinas, Fossil Shark's Teeth Through Time, Ocean Life Through Time, Fossil Plants, "Megalodon" Shark Jaw, Freshwater Fishes, and Fossils of Mammoths and Mastodons. The museum is open to the public, and is manned by geology majors who work as student docents who can deliver guided tours. The museum is located on the second floor of the School of Sciences and Mathematics Building at 202 Calhoun Street. It is open every day except Wednesdays from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm, and admission is free.
