The Museum of Texas Tech University is the broad, old-school campus museum: art, natural history, archaeology, regional material, and a planetarium under one roof. It is useful when the weather is too hot, too windy, or too stormy for outdoor wandering.
The museum also helps explain why Lubbock feels bigger than a remote plains city. Texas Tech gives the city academic collections, public art, performances, and a steady stream of students who keep the place from feeling sleepy.