Introduction to the Lehigh Valley Museum of Natural History

This will be the site of the Lehigh Valley (Virtual) Museum of Natural History.

The Lehigh Valley has an art museum, an historical center, the Da Vinci Science Center, the Lehigh Valley Zoo, but no museum of natural history.

This is an effort to correct that.

In the Lehigh Valley we have great natural history resources both in fossils and scientific academia.  There is Muhlenberg College and Cedar Crest College, both of which are great sources of natural history knowledge.

But we do not have a physical location to call our "museum of natural history".

Therefore, these pages will present an online museum of natural history presenting remnants and fossils from the beginning of the solar system up through the emergence of modern man.

We will have text and photos.  The photos will be of actual fossils where possible.  When the actual fossils are not available we will use accurate reproductions or casts of fossils.

We will present information and text about meteorites, the earliest forms of life, life before the dinosaurs, dinosaurs, and life after the dinosaurs up through the evolution of man.

We will be changing and updating this site constantly as new pieces/information become available.

We welcome additions to this site.

We also welcome corrections to this site as well as clarification wherever it may be needed.

Mostly we would welcome eventually turning the "virtual" into a real location accessible to the students of the Lehigh Valley and, in general, everyone who has an interest in the natural sciences.

This is not a solicitation for funds to come to us.  If there is an interest in creating an actual location, please let us know and an organized effort will be started.

This is also not a "for profit" site.  We do not collect money or sell items.

This is solely for sharing the knowledge and wonder of the natural sciences.

For correspondence e-mail:  naturalhistory@lvmnh.org