Exhibits
Our collections and exhibits have been curated over many years and been on display at museums, civic centers, local businesses, and libraries just to name a few, with select exhibits available for loan. Those exhibits to loan are light weight and easy to hang, and you do not have to be a museum professional to host one of these exhibits. They are educational and great to share with school groups. The displays were created to bring quality programming to sites no matter the programming budget. For as little as $100 + shipping, you can host a quality exhibit for four weeks and receive promotional and educational materials to accompany the displays.
Permanent Exhibit
Prehistoric Cedar Hill
The Cedar Hill Museum is proud to present the first of what, at build out, will be four phases of our history. Prehistoric Cedar Hill covers the period approximately 66 million years ago when the city lay under water, part of the Western Interior Seaway. The exhibit features ‘Plessy’, a long-necked Plesiosaurus, Cedar Hill’s earliest known resident discovered in the 1930s by T. J. Tidwell.
The fossilized specimen was one of a group of marine reptiles that swam right here in what was, around 220 million years to about 66 million years ago, an ocean. Come visit our museum inside the Traphene Hickman Library to learn more of Plessy’s remarkable story and discover the wonders of our City in a Park.