Centennial Museum
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The Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardents is a cultural history and natural history museum in El Paso, Texas, United States.
The Centennial Museum is located on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso. Its focus is on the cultural and natural history of the Southwest and Mexico, with particular emphasis on the Chihuahuan Desert. The permanent exhibits include paleontology, geology, ethnology, archaeology, and regional higher vertebrates; the Chihuahuan Desert Gardens on the Museum grounds feature over 600 species of native plants. The Laboratory for Environmental Biology is the biological research component of the Museum.
Temporary exhibits cover a wide range of subjects apropos to the Museum's mission or to that of the University of Texas at El Paso. Emphasis tends to be on the El Paso Border Region of the United States and Mexico.
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