The University of Nebraska State Museum and Mueller Planetarium reopened to the public on Friday.
Shanahan Mechanical and Electrical workers team up to hang a lighting track in a first-floor exhibit in Morrill Hall. The building will reopen on Friday after being closed since Oct. 2 for renovations.
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Workers with Lincoln Glass use the lights on their phones to help find fingerprints in the new glass they are installing in front of the exhibits in Morrill Hall.Â
The life and work of Lincoln's Joel Sartore
A veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) at the Rolling Hills Zoo.
National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore is seen with one of his banner prints of a spotted owl displayed in Morrill Hall on the UNL Campus in 2004.
A clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) at the Houston Zoo. This species is listed as federally endangered. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
A Blue poison dart frog (Dendrobates azureus) at Reptile Gardens. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore photographed these four coyote puppies at Nebraska Wildlife Rehab in Louisville. The image, part of Sartore's Photo Ark series, was one of many by several National Geographic photographers that was projected upon the walls of St. Peter's Basilica Dec. 8, 2015. The project, "Fiat Lux: Illuminating Our Common Home," was designed to highlight the plights of animals and bring attention to the Paris climate talks.Â
A critically endangered red wolf (Canis rufus gregoryi) at the Great Plains Zoo. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) named Bensar at the George M. Sutton Avian Research Center. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore of Lincoln pauses in the middle of a 12-hour workday in 2013 as he worked on the hardwood floor of the Lewis-Syford House, which he and his family were renovating. Built in 1878, the French Second Empire-style house on the 700 block of North 16th Street was being prepared for his eldest son, Cole, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
A female African elephant (Loxodonta africana) at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
These dog images are on soundproofing panels in the Pieloch center’s kennel areas in Lincoln's Capital Humane Society. A few years ago Joel Sartore photographed the dogs, which were in the Park Boulevard facility’s adoption program.
A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) at Zoo Atlanta. This endangered species is native to China. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) at the Omaha Zoo. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
This caricature of Joel Sartore was done by Jim Horan, who has drawn all but two of the Omaha Press Club’s 136 Faces on the Barroom Floor.
Breast cancer survivor Kathy Sartore and husband Joel Sartore, National Geographic photographer, in 2012 stand in front of a gray wolf image he photographed for National Geographic.Â
Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis). (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore (right), a National Geographic photographer, and Charles DeVries of SignCo install a banner in between the pillars of Morrill Hall where an exhibit of Sartore's images was displayed in 2004.
Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) from the Sierra Chincua mountain range, Mexico. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore and Anne Thompson of NBC Nightly News prepare to photograph a West African dwarf crocodile at the Lincoln Children's Zoo in 2012. Sartore was taking images of the 6,000 species in U.S. zoos. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
The federally endangered blowout penstemon (Penstemon haydenii), raised by Jim Stubbendieck, who helped bring the plant back from the brink of extinction.
Joel Sartore poses with his wife Kathy and three kids, (from left) Spencer, Ellen and Cole and dog, Muldoon, at their home in Lincoln, Jan. 25, 2009.
Grey gibbons (Hylobates muelleri muelleri) at the Miller Park Zoo. This species is listed as endangered. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore cleans the rain gutter over his front door in late June 2007 after hanging a large American flag.Â
The Salt Creek tiger beetle (Cicindela nevadica lincolniana) in a lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore (top) gets help from Charles DeVries of SignCO with installing one of two large banners in between the pillars of Morrill Hall to promote an exhibit of Sartore's photography and to raise funds and memberships for the museum on the UNL Campus in 2004.
A Linne's two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) at the Lincoln Children's Zoo. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Joel Sartore, Lincoln resident and National Geographic photographer, made a presentation on endangered species at Lincoln East in 1999.
Minnows over the Powder River in Wyoming, an ecosystem threatened by coal bed methane development.
Joel Sartore shares with a 2012 Lincoln audience his photography from travels around the world and how his wife’s breast cancer has impacted him and his family.Â
Reimann's snake-necked turtle (Chelodina reimanni). (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore views three photo banners of a bison and calf, a puffy prairie dog and tallgrass prairie with walking sticks that were to be displayed in Sartore's exhibit in Morrill Hall in 2004.
Humboldt penguins off the Chilean coast.Â
A family portrait of (from left) Cole, Joel, Kathy and Spencer Sartore framed in the second-story window of the Lewis-Syford House, which the family was renovating in 2013.Â
A captive, 5-month-old mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Ivory-billed woodpecker, University of Nebraska State Museum.
Small as it is, few species are as controversial as the prairie dog. Joel Sartore photographed this one in Montana in 1995. Photo by Joel Sartore/joelsartore.com
Hasari, a 3-year-old cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), at White Oak Conservation Center. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
National Geographic photographer and Nebraska native Joel Sartore (right) and Joel Neilson stand on ladders in 2004 to make a fit for a large photo banner of a bison and calf that was featured in Sartore's exhibit at Morrill Hall.
An endangered Coquerel's sifaka (Propithecus coquereli). (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
A portrait of a turkey vulture. (Courtesy Joel Sartore/joelsartore.com)
Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum) at the Great Plains Zoo. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
A male okapi (Okapia johnstoni), at White Oak Conservation Center. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
A spectacled owl (Pulsatrix perspicillata). (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
A male eastern bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci) at the Great Plains Zoo. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) named Usi from the Omaha Zoo. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
A young female snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) at Raptor Recovery Nebraska. (JOEL SARTORE/Copyright www.joelsartore.com)
