A Natural History Museum or Museum of Natural History is a museum with exhibits about 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. Nature centers often include natural-history exhibits too.
Notable examples
- National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC
- Natural History Museum, London, London, UK
- Natural History Museum (Ireland), Dublin
- Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks, New York, USA
- Natural History Museum of Bern, Switzerland
- Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen
- Natural History Museum of Crete, Greece
- Natural History Museum of Geneva, Switzerland
- Natural History Museum of Giacomo Doria
- Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, USA
- Natural History Museum of Nantes, France
- Natural History Museum of Slovenia
- Natural History Museum of Tampere
- Natural History Museum of Tripoli, Tripoli
- Natural History Museum of Venice, Italy
- Natural History Museum of Vienna, Austria
- Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo
- Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Goulandris Natural History Museum, Athena, Greece
- Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary
- Imperial Natural History Museum, Austria-Hungary
- Las Vegas Natural History Museum, Las Vegas
- Maastricht Natural History Museum, The Netherlands
- Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Natural History Museum
- San Diego Natural History Museum, California, USA
- Tianjin Natural History Museum, Tianjin
- Turin Museum of Natural History, Turin
- University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Kansas, USA
See also