The Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts Museum is located on the ground floor of the Mineral Resources Building on the Evansdale Campus of West Virginia University.  Admission to the Watts Museum is free.

Parking
Free parking is available at the WVU Coliseum.  After parking at the Coliseum, visitors may either walk across Route US 19/WV 7 and up Evansdale Drive to the Mineral Resources Building, or they may take a shuttle bus from the Coliseum to the Mineral Resources Building. Shuttle buses leave the main gate of the Coliseum every fifteen minutes.

Directions
From Interstate 79:  Take the Star City/West Virginia University exit (Exit 155). If traveling southbound, turn left onto Chaplin Hill Road from the exit ramp. If traveling northbound, turn right onto Chaplin Hill Road from the exit ramp. Follow Chaplin Hill Road, passing through the light, as it merges with Route US 19/WV 7 (Jerry West/Monongahela Boulevard). Cross the Star City Bridge over the Monongahela River.  Pass through the first light after the bridge and travel up the hill. At the second light, turn right into the Coliseum parking lot. 

From Interstate 68:  Follow Interstate 68 to Interstate 79.  Merge onto Interstate 79 North at Exit 148. Take Interstate 79 North to the Star City/West Virginia University exit (Exit 155) and follow the directions above.

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College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia Uinversity
Post Office Box 6070 Morgantown, WV 26506 | Telephone 304.293.4609 | Facsimile: 304.293.5708 | wattsmuseum@mail.wvu.edu

 

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