This is a list of natural history museums, also known as museums of natural history, i.e. museums whose exhibits focus on the subject of natural history, including such topics as animals, plants, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, and climatology.
Some museums feature natural-history collections in addition to other collections, such as ones related to history, art and science. In addition, nature centers often include natural-history exhibits.
Europe
Albania
- Natural Science Museum, Tirana
Austria
- Bergbaumuseum Klagenfurt – Mining museum, mineralogy, palaeontology, Klagenfurt
- Burgenlandische Landesmuseum, Eisenstadt
- Haus der Natur, Salzburg
- inatura – Erlebnis Naturschau Dornbirn Province Vorarlberg (in German), Dornbirn
- Krahuletz-Museum Eggenburg Earth sciences and history (in German), Eggenburg
- Landesmuseum für Kärnten, Klagenfurt Regional museum for the province Carinthia (in German), Klagenfurt
- Landesmuseum Niederösterreichisches, St. Pölten Nature, history, culture and art of Lower Austria (in German)
- Landschaftsmuseum im Schloss Trautenfels Natural and cultural history in upper Styria (German), Pürgg-Trautenfels
- Museum der Stadt Mödling Nature and history, Mödling
- Museum Schloss Lackenbach Man and nature, Lackenbach
- Nationalparkzentrum Bios Mallnitz, Mallnitz
- Oberösterreiches Landesmuseum – Biologiezentrum The natural history museum of Upper Austria, Linz
- Sternwarte Kremsmünster, Kremsmünster
- Styrassic Park An open air dinosaur park, Bad Gleichenberg
- Tyrolean State Museum, Innsbruck
- Universalmuseum Joanneum universal museum for natural and cultural history, Graz
- Vienna Museum of Natural History, Vienna
- Wienerwaldmuseum, Eichgraben
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
- Burgas Museum, Natural History Exposition, Burgas
- Earth and Man National Museum, Sofia
- Historical Museum – Karnobat, Karnobat
- History Museum – Panagyurishte, Panagyurishte
- Kardjali Museum, Kardjali
- Museum Collection of Natural Science "To Nature with Love", Byala Cherkva
- Museum of Speleology and Bulgarian Karst, Chepelare
- National Museum of Natural History, Bulgaria, Sofia
- Natural History Museum of Varna, Varna
- Natural History Museum of Ruse Ruse
- Natural History Museum of Cherni Osam Lovech
- Paleontological Museum, Asenovgrad
- Regional Historical Museum in Pleven, Pleven
- University of Mining & Geology Museum of Mineralogy, Petrography and Minerals, St. Ivan Rilski, Sofia
Canary Islands
(belongs politically to Spain)
Croatia
- Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb (Hrvatski prirodoslovni muzej)
- Dubrovnik Natural History Museum, Dubrovnik
- Hunting Museum, Zagreb
- Karlovac Municipal Museum, Karlovac
- Museum of Evolution and Prehistoric Human Habitation, Krapina
- Museum of Slavonia, Osijek
- Mushroom Museum, Zagreb
- Natural History Museum, Rijeka
- Natural History Museum and Zoo, Split
- Ornithological Collection, Metković
- Senj City Museum, Senj
- Varazdin Municipal Museum: The Herzer Palace, Varaždin
- Zoological Museum of Baranja – Kopačevo, Baranja – Kopačevo
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
University of Tartu Natural History Museum
Finland
France
- Dinosauria, Espéraza
- Micropolis (La Cité des Insectes), Millau
- Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Histoire Naturelle Châteaudun, Châteaudun
- Musée des Confluences, Lyon
- Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille, Lille
- Musée de Vendôme, Vendôme
- Musée Géologique, Vernet-les-Bains
- Musée Requien, Avignon
- Musée zoologique de la ville de Strasbourg, Strasbourg
- Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Aix-en-Provence, Aix-en-Provence
- Muséum d'histoire naturelle d'Angers, Angers
- Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille, Marseille
- Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Blois, Blois
- Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Bourges, Bourges
- Muséum d'histoire naturelle d'archéologie et d'ethnographie, Cherbourg-Octeville
- Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Grenoble, Grenoble
- Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle du Havre, Le Havre
- Natural History Museum of Nantes
- Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nice
- Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Rouen, Rouen
- Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse
- Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Tours, Tours
- Muséum des Sciences Naturelles et de la Préhistoire de Chartres, Chartres
- Muséum des Sciences Naturelles d'Orléans, Orléans
- Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris
Georgia
Germany
- Aquazoo-Löbbecke-Museum Düsseldorf
- Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum, Hamburg
- Botanisches Museum, Berlin
- Bürgermeister-Müller-Museum, Solnhofen
- Deutsches Meeresmuseum, Stralsund
- Geologisches Museum München, Munich
- Haus der Natur, Cismar
- Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
- Jura Museum, Eichstätt
- Lower Saxony State Museum (German: Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover), Hanover
- Mineralogisches Museum, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg
- Museum der Natur Gotha, Thuringia
- Müritzeum, Waren (Müritz)
- Museum der Natur Gotha, Gotha
- Museum für Natur und Umwelt, Lübeck
- Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
- Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz, Chemnitz
- Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg, Magdeburg
- Museum Heineanum Halberstadt
- Museum Koenig, Bonn
- Museum of Man and Nature (German Museum Mensch und Natur), Munich
- Museum of Natural History in the Ottoneum, Official site in German, Kassel
- Museum Wiesbaden, Natural History Collections – MWNH, Wiesbaden
- Museum Witt, Munich
- Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt
- Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum, Braunschweig
- Naturhistorisches Museum, Mainz
- Naturkundemuseum Coburg, Coburg
- Naturkunde Museum, Bamberg[38]
- Naturkundemuseum Erfurt, Thuringia
- Naturkundemuseum Leipzig, Leipzig
- Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann
- Paläontologisches Museum München, Munich
- Palatine Museum of Natural History (Pfalzmuseum für Naturkunde), Bad Dürkheim
- Phyletisches Museum, Jena
- Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg
- Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde, Görlitz
- State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe (German: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde), Karlsruhe
- State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart (German: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde), Stuttgart
- State Museum of Zoology (German: Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen), Dresden
- Südostbayerisches Naturkunde- und Mammut-Museum, Siegsdorf
- Übersee-Museum Bremen, Bremen
- Urwelt-Museum Hauff (Hauff Museum of the Prehistoric World), Holzmaden
- Westfälisches Museum für Naturkunde, Münster
- Zoological Museum of Kiel University, Kiel
- Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Munich
Greece
- Natural History Museum of Meteora and Mushroom Museum, Kalampaka, Trikala[39]
- Cretan Aquarium, Heraklion
- Goulandris Natural History Museum, Athens
- Volos Natural History Museum, Volos
- Mineralogical Museum of Lavrion, Athens
- Museum of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Athens
- Natural History Museum of Crete
- Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest, Lesvos
- Rhodes Aquarium, Rhodes
- Zoological Museum of the University of Athens
- Museum of Mineralogy & Paleontology Stamatiadis, Ialysos, Rhodes
Greenland
- Greenland National Museum and Archives, Nuuk
Hungary
- Danube Museum (Duna Múzeum), Esztergom
- Deri Museum, Official site in Hungarian, Debrecen
- Exhibition of Natural Science, Janus Pannonius Múzeum Természettudományi Osztálya, Pécs
- Geological Museum of Hungary, Budapest
- Hungarian Geographical Museum, Magyar Környezetvédelmi és Vízügyi Múzeum "Duna Múzeum", Esztergom
- Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest
- Jazygian Museum (Jász Múzeum), Jászberény
- Kazinczy Ferenc Múzeum, Sátoraljaújhely
- Komlo Natural Science Collection (Komlói Természettudományi Gyűjtemény), Komló
- Mátra Múzeum, Gyöngyös
- Mihály Munkácsy Museum, Békéscsaba
- Móra Ferenc Múzeum, Szeged
- Museum of Natural Sciences of Bakony (Bakonyi Természettudományi Múzeum), Zirc
- Ottó Herman Museum, Miskolc
Iceland
- Natural History Museum of Kópavogur, Kópavogur
Ireland
Italy
- Museo Civico Scienze Naturali Enrico Caffi, Bergamo[40]
- University Museums, University of Bologna, Bologna[41]
- Museo della Preistoria Luigi Donini, San Lazzaro di Savena, Bologna[42]
- Museo del Fossile del Monte Baldo, Brentonico, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol[43]
- Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Carmagnola (Piedmont)
- Museo Civico Comunale di Comiso, (Sicily)
- Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Ferrara, Ferrara
- Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze, University of Florence, Florence[44]
- Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, Genoa
- Museo di Storia Naturale della Maremma, Grosseto
- Museo di Storia Naturale del Mediterraneo, Livorno
- Museo di Scienze Naturali, Lodi, Lombardy
- Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Milan
- Zoological Museum of Naples, Naples
- Museo di Geologia e Paleontologia, University of Padua, Padua
- Museo per la Storia dell'Università, University of Pavia, Pavia[45]
- Museo di Storia Naturale, University of Pavia, Pavia[46]
- Museo di Archeologia, University of Pavia, Pavia[47]
- Museo di Mineralogia, University of Pavia, Pavia[48]
- Natural History Museum, Pisa[49]
- Museo Geologico delle Dolomiti, Predazzo, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol[50][51]
- Museo Civico di Zoologia di Roma, Rome[52]
- Geological Museum, Rome[53]
- Museo Civico Rovereto, Rovereto
- Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Saint-Pierre
- Museo di Storia Naturale, Sulmona
- Museo di Storia Naturale Bios Taras, Taranto
- Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Trento
- Civico Museo di Storia Naturale di Trieste, Trieste
- Turin Museum of Natural History, Turin
- Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia, Venice
- Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
- Macedonian Museum of Natural History, Skopje
Malta
Moldova
- National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, Chișinău
Monaco
Montenegro
- Natural History Museum of Montenegro, Podgorica
The Netherlands
- Naturalis (or National Museum of Natural History), Leiden
- Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht, Maastricht
- Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, Rotterdam
- Oertijdmuseum, Boxtel
- Teylers Museum, Haarlem
- Zoologisch Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
- Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht, Utrecht
- Universiteitsmuseum Groningen, Groningen
- Museon, The Hague
- Natuurhistorisch Museum Natura Docet, Denekamp
- Natuurhistorisch en Volkenkundig Museum Oudenbosch, Oudenbosch
- Gelders Geologisch Museum, Velp
- Natuurmuseum Nijmegen, Nijmegen
- Schelpenmuseum paal 14, Schiermonnikoog
- Ecomare, Texel
- Natuurmuseum Fyslan, Leeuwarden
Norway
Poland
Portugal
- Museu Oceanográfico "Prof. Luiz Saldanha" do Portinho da Arrábida, Azeitão
- Museu Botânico da Escola Superior Agrária de Beja, Beja
- Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, Coimbra
- Museu de História Natural do Funchal, Funchal, Madeira Island
- National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, Lisbon
- Museu Geológico – Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, Lisbon
- Museu Maynense – Lisbon Academy of Sciences, Lisbon
- Museu da Lourinhã, Lourinhã
- Museu Aquário Vasco da Gama, Oeiras
- Museu Carlos Machado, Ponta Delgada
- Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto, Porto
- Sintra Natural History Museum, Sintra
- Museu de Geologia "Fernando Real" da Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real
Romania
- Bucegi Natural Park Museum, Sinaia
- Colţi Museum of Amber
- Constantin Gruescu Iron Aesthetic Mineralogy Museum, Ocna de Fier
- County Museum of Satu Mare (Szatmárnémeti Múzeum), Satu Mare
- Danube Delta Natural Sciences Museum, Tulcea
- Haaz Rezső Múzeum, Odorheiu Secuiesc
- Ion Borcea Museum Complex of Natural Sciences, Bacău
- Mihai Băcescu Waters Museum, Fălticeni
- Mineralogical Museum and Zoological Museum of the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
- Museum of Banat, Natural Sciences Department, Timișoara
- Museum of Brăila, Department of Natural Sciences, also, Brăila
- Museum of Gold, Brad
- Museum of Natural Science (Muzeul de Ştiinţe Naturale), Aiud
- Museum of Oltenia, Craiova
- Muzeul Banatului (Banat Museum), Timișoara
- Muzeul de Istorie Naturală – Iaşi, Iaşi
- Muzeul de Ştiinţe ale Naturii Piatra Neamţ; see also Iaşi, Romania Museums, Iaşi
- Muzeul de Ştiinţele Naturii Roman, Roman
- Muzeul Naţional de Istorie Naturală Grigore Antipa (Grigore Antipa Natural History Museum), Bucharest
- Muzeul Ţării Crişurilor, Oradea
- Muzeul Tarisznyás Márton, English description, Gheorgheni
- National Geology Museum, Bucharest
- Natural History Museum Sibiu, Sibiu
- Natural Sciences and Hunting Museum, Vatra Dornei
- Natural Sciences Museum Dorohoi
- Natural Sciences Museum Complex, Constanţa
- Natural Sciences Museum Complex Galaţi, Galaţi
- Paleontological and Stratighraphical Museum of the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
- Prahova County Natural Sciences Museum, Ploieşti
- Sediul Muzeului de Ştiinţele Naturii (Mureș County Museum, Natural History Department), Târgu Mureş
- Székely National Museum (Székely Nemzeti Múzeum), Sfântu Gheorghe
- Szekler Museum of Ciuc (Csíky Székely Múzeum), Miercurea-Ciuc
- Vrancea Museum, Natural Sciences Department, Focşani
Russia
- Earth History Museum, Vernadsky State Geological Museum, Moscow
- Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Moscow
- Zoological Museum of Moscow University
- Geological Museum, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk
- Siberian Zoological Museum website English
- Kotelnich Palaeontological Museum, Kirov Oblast
- Kunstkamera, Saint Petersburg
- Orlov Museum, also Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
- State Darwin Museum, Moscow
- Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science, Saint Petersburg
- St. Petersburg University Museum of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology
- Paleontological Museum of Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg
- Mineralogical Museum of Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg
- Petrographical Museum of Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg
Serbia
Slovenia
Slovakia
Spain
- Cau del Cargol Conquilles del Món (Shells of the World Museum, malacology), Catalonia
- Institut Paleontològic Dr. M. Crusafont, Sabadell
- Museo de Ciencias de Arnedo (Museum of Science Arnedo), Arnedo
- Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Álava
- Museu de Ciències Naturals, Barcelona
- Museo de Ciencias Naturales (Guadalcazar) and Mocha Tower, Córdoba
- Museo Geominero, Madrid
- Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales (Municipal Museum of Natural Science), Valencia
- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid
- Museo Paleontologico de la Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza
- Museu de Ciencies Naturals de Costix, Majorca
- Museu de Granollers Ciències Naturals, Granollers
- Museu de les Papallones de Catalunya, Lleida
- Museu Geològic del Seminari de Barcelona, Barcelona
- Museu Montsia, Amposta
- Museu Valencià d'Història Natural – Fundación Entomológica Torres Sala, Valencia
- Museum of Zoology, University of Navarra, Pamplona[55]
Sweden
- Biologiska Museet (Biological Museum), Djurgården, Stockholm
- Gotland Museum (Gotlands museum), Visby
- Geological Museum Villa Heidelberg, Klimpfjäll
- Göteborg Natural History Museum (Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum), Gothenburg
- Malmö Museums – Natural History Museum, Malmö
- Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet) Stockholm
- Swedish Amber Museum, Höllviken
- Universeum, Gothenburg
- Lund University Zoology Museum (Lunds Universitet Zoologiska museet), Lund
- Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University (Evolutions Museet Uppsala Universitet), Uppsala
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
England
- Bagshaw Museum, Batley
- Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton
- Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol
- Buxton Museum & Art Gallery, Buxton
- Camborne School of Mines Mineral Museum, Tremough, Cornwall
- Charnwood Museum, Loughborough, Leicestershire
- Chelmsford Museum, Chelmsford
- Cole Museum of Zoology, Reading
- Dinosaur Isle, Isle of Wight
- Dorman Museum, Linthorpe
- Grant Museum of Zoology, London
- Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Haslemere Educational Museum, Haslemere, Surrey
- Horniman Museum, London
- Ipswich Museum, Ipswich
- Kendal Museum, Kendal
- Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston
- Manchester Museum, Manchester
- Museum of Lancashire, Lancashire
- Natural History Museum, London
- Natural History Museum at Tring, Tring
- Norwich Castle, Norwich
- Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford
- Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
- Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex Park, Birchington, Kent
- Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
- Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
- Tolson Museum, Huddersfield
- Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
- University of Bristol Geology Museum, University of Bristol, Bristol
- Weston Park Museum, Sheffield
- Wollaton Hall Natural History Museum, Nottingham
- World Museum Liverpool, Liverpool
- Yorkshire Museum, York
- Yorkshire Natural History Museum, Sheffield
Scotland
- Creetown Gem Rock Museum, Creetown, Galloway
- Elgin Museum, Elgin, Moray
- Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow
- National Museums of Scotland, Royal Museum, Edinburgh
- Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
- Bell Pettigrew Museum, University of St Andrews, St Andrews
Wales
Northern Ireland