The Missouri Institute of Natural Science offers a variety of lectures at the Museum. Admission to lectures is free to the public, except when noted otherwise. These lectures offer insight and information into a wide range of natural history subjects, and are tailored to the interest level of the audience. Lectures in the recent past have covered Riverbluff Cave (probably the oldest Ice Age cave in North America, and located behind the Museum), caving, paleontology, fossils and fossil dating. If you would like to suggest a topic for a lecture, please let us know. To learn more about upcoming lectures, please call the Museum at 417-8833-0594.