museums & history

SWAU Dinosaur Science Museum & Research Center

Come see one of America's largest dinosaur fossil collections in the country! Located at 113 West Magnolia Street on the SWAU campus, you can discover how more than 30,000 dinosaur bones are cleaned, cataloged, and preserved.

Click here for more info

Hopps Museum & Welcome Ctr

The Hopps Museum, a visitor and community center, is a two-story facility filled with exciting exhibits, including periodic displays of private collections and historic items dating back to 1893. You also will want to see a replica of the plane, "Old Soggy," the first plane in Texas built by Floyd H "Slats" Rogers right here in Keene in 1911!