Open Hours
Monday-Thursday
10 am - 5 pm
Friday: 10 am - 8 pm
Saturday: 10 am - 5 pm
Sunday: 1 pm - 5 pm

Location
In the Mesilla Valley Mall next to J.C. Penney department store and Chuck-E-Cheese. On the corner of Lohman Ave. and Telshor Blvd.
(map)

Contact Us
Phone: (575) 522-3120
FAX: (575) 532– 3370

Museum Manager
Mike Walczak
mwalczak@las-cruces.org

Museum of Natural History
700 S. Telshor Blvd. #1608
Las Cruces, NM 88011

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Happening

Crime Lab Detective
Educational Resources

Activities
Authentic Learning Beyond The Classroom

Chromatography - Activity

Crime Lab Detective - Docent Text

Crime Lab Detective Notebook Full Version

Crime Lab Detective Solution Grid

Crime Lab Detective Teacher Packet + Nature Center

Death Scene Form

Dental Forensics or the Teeth Can Tell

Facial Reconstruction 3D Text

Facial Reconstruction - 2D

Fingerprint Classification

Fingerprinting - Taking a Print Activity

Fingerprinting Background

Fingerprinting Case

Fingerprinting Class Project

Fingerprints at the Crime Scene Activity

Footprints Outsole Feature Markings

Foot-To-Height Ratio

Forensic Anthropologist

Forensic Dentistry - Tooth Eruption Chart

Forensic Entomologist

Forensic Entomology - Beetles

Forensic Entomology - Blow Flies

Forensic Entomology - Blow Fly Lifecycle

Forensic Entomology - Maggots

Forensic Entomology - Significant Insects

Hair Evidence Background

Handbook of Forensic Services

Handwriting Analysis - Baseline Description

Handwriting Analysis - Baseline Examples

Handwriting Analysis - Basic Concepts

Handwriting Analysis - Size Description

Handwriting Analysis - Size Examples

Handwriting Analysis - Size Explanation

Handwriting Analysis - Slant Description

Handwriting analysis - Slant Explanation

Handwriting Analysis Case Activity

Handwriting Analysis Grid Sheet

Handwriting Background

Ink Pen Chromatography Activity Page

Length of Foot vs Height

Lip Prints Background

Lipstick Chromatography Activity Sheet

Mystery Books for Children

National Science Education Teaching Standards

NMSU Minor in Forensic Science

Powder Analysis Activity - What is that White Powder?

Powder Analysis Chart

Shoe Prints

Teacher Resource Materials

The History of Fingerprints

Tire Tread Analysis - FBI

Toolmark Identification

What is Forensic Entomology?

Who Dunnit Grid

X-Ray - Elbow

X-Ray - Shoulder

X-Ray - Skull

Links
A Science Odyssey: DNA Workshop: Replication

AE Living Skeleton a Tour of Human Bones

Blood Groups, Blood Typing and Blood Transfusions

Blood Types Tutorial

Blood Typing Facts

DNA From The Beginning

Facial Reconstruction

Fingerprinting A Lesson on Classification

Fingerprints iprimus

Forensic Dentistry

Forensic entomology

Forensic Entomology - The Use of Insects in Death Investigations

Forensic Science

Forensics in the Classroom on truTV

Free Basic Hand Writing Analysis Course

Human Blood ABO Blood Types

Interactive Investigator

My First Book About DNA - Children's Science DNA Picture Boo

MysteryNet's Kids Mysteries mysteries to solve, scary storie

NMSU Criminal Justice

Shoe Print & Tire Track impression examination resources

Soil Evidence

Tire Standards Collection

Welcome to the World of Forensic Entomology

Who Dunnit?

Whose Skeleton is in Your Closet?