The Zuhl Collection

About the Zuhls

For more than thirty years, Herb and Joan Zuhl have collected petrified wood, fossils, minerals, and rocks for their private collection and have sold to collectors and galleries worldwide. In April 2000, the Zuhls, who moved to Las Cruces more than ten years ago, generously allowed their personal collection to be displayed at New Mexico State University.

In 2003, a gift from the Zuhls underwrote the cost of remodeling and expanding gallery space in the NMSU Alumni and Visitors Center to house a larger portion of their collection in a museum setting. In 2007, another gift made possible an extension to the Alumni and Visitors Center, almost doubling the area of the museum. The museum is easily accessible to local citizens, school groups, and visitors to the university, as well as southern New Mexico.