Frank H. McClung Museum

The Frank H. McClung Museum is a general museum located on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Built in 1963, exhibits focus on natural history, archeology, anthropology, decorative arts, and local history. The museum features on permanent exhibit a collection of artifacts from the Egyptian periods spanning the pre-dynastic to the Ptolemaic.

Other permanent exhibits include:

• The Civil War experience in Knoxville
• Prehistoric peoples of Tennessee and artifacts found during the building of dams in the state in the 1930s and 1940s, with examples including the "Sandy" statue found at the Sellars Mound and the cache of ceramic figurines found at the Brick Church Mound and Village Site.
• Tennessee fossils and geological history
• Freshwater pearl mussels
• Decorative art pieces in many media and from many countries and periods

The museum also hosts various changing exhibits of art, history and culture.

The museums is accredited by the American Association of Museums, and is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.

See also

• East Tennessee Historical Society

External links

• McClung Museum Homepage