Natural History Museum
موزه تاریخ طبیعی
Location within Iran
General information
Status	Cultural
Type	Museum
Architectural style	Azeri
Location	Isfahan, Iran
Coordinates	32°39′29″N 51°40′27″E / 32.6580°N 51.6741°E / 32.6580; 51.6741
Owner	Cultural Heritage, Handcrafts and Tourism Organization

The Natural History Museum of Isfahan, Iran, is located in a building that dates from the 15th century Timurid era. The building includes large halls and a veranda which are decorated by muqarnas and stucco.^[1] This building became a museum in 1988. ^[2]

Halls

The museum has seven halls:

• Guidance hall
• Invertebrates hall, containing: Unicellular organisms, sponges, corals, echinoderms, mollusca, arthropods, insects, and seashells.
• Botany hall has different kinds of flowering plants, whole plants, medicinal plants, and tree trunks.
• Geology hall contains all constituents of the Earth's solid crust, including minerals, crystals, ore, and sedimentary rocks.
• Hall of physical geography and map of geology, plants, animals, ... ^[3]
• Vertebrates hall contains different kinds of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, which are kept as taxidermy specimens.
• Hall of Graphic training aids

Architecture

This building has several large halls and a porch decorated with Muqarnas and stucco. There are plastic dinosaurs in front of the building which some may regard as incongruous with the building's architecture.

Gallery

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