Editing Brigham Young University (section)

=== Museums ===
[[File:MOA North entrance.JPG|thumb|right|[[Brigham Young University Museum of Art|Museum of Art]] north entrance]]
Several museums on campus contain exhibits from many different fields of study. BYU's [[Brigham Young University Museum of Art|Museum of Art]], for example, is one of the largest and most attended art museums in the Mountain West. This museum offers research and study opportunities to students and educational programming to the general public.<ref>{{cite web| title =About the Museum| work =Brigham Young University Museum of Art| publisher =Brigham Young University| date =September 28, 2006| url =http://moa.byu.edu/index.php?id=50| access-date =August 21, 2007| archive-date =May 23, 2010| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20100523185438/http://moa.byu.edu/index.php?id=50| url-status =live}}</ref> The [[Brigham Young University Museum of Peoples and Cultures|Museum of Peoples and Cultures]] is a museum of archaeology and ethnology. It focuses on native cultures and artifacts of the Great Basin, American Southwest, Mesoamerica, Peru, and Polynesia. Home to more than 40,000 artifacts and 50,000 photographs, it documents BYU's archaeological research.<ref>{{cite web| title =Collections| work =Museum of Peoples and Cultures| publisher =Brigham Young University| date =July 12, 2008| url =http://mpc.byu.edu/Research/Collections.dhtml| access-date =July 12, 2008| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20080511161245/http://mpc.byu.edu/Research/Collections.dhtml| archive-date =May 11, 2008| df =mdy-all}}</ref> The [[BYU Museum of Paleontology]]<ref>[http://cpms.byu.edu/ESM/index.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607231555/http://cpms.byu.edu/ESM/index.html|date=June 7, 2007}}</ref> was built in 1976 to display the many fossils found by BYU's [[James A. Jensen]]. It holds many vertebrate fossils from the [[Jurassic Period|Jurassic]] and Cretaceous periods and is one of the top five vertebrate fossil collections in the world from the Jurassic. <!-- 100 tons of plaster-covered bones are stored underneath BYU's football stadium. This doesn't really fit here, if we're talking about museums, but it is cool.--> The museum receives about 25,000 visitors every year.<ref>{{cite web|title=Museum Information |work=BYU Earth Science Museum |publisher=Brigham Young University |date=October 26, 2006 |url=http://cpms.byu.edu/ESM/information.html |access-date=August 21, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070815023403/http://cpms.byu.edu/ESM/information.html |archive-date=August 15, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title =On Display at the Museum| work =BYU Earth Science Museum| publisher =Brigham Young University| date =October 26, 2006| url =http://cpms.byu.edu/ESM/index.html| access-date =August 21, 2007| url-status =dead| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070607231555/http://cpms.byu.edu/ESM/index.html| archive-date =June 7, 2007| df =mdy-all}}</ref> The [[Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum]] was formed in 1978. It features several forms of plant and animal life on display and available for research by students and scholars.<ref>{{cite web| title =Museum Description| work =Monte L. Bean Museum of Life Science| publisher =Brigham Young University| url =http://mlbean.byu.edu/home/page/Description.aspx
| access-date = August 21, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070701001829/http://mlbean.byu.edu/home/page/Description.aspx |archive-date = July 1, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>