Natural history museums

The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia was founded in 1812 to expand knowledge of the natural world. In its early days it organized expeditions to explore the western part of the country, led by Stephen Long and Ferdinand Hayden. The Academy employed some of the leading zoologists of the day, including Thomas Say and Thomas Nuttall. ...more on Wikipedia about "Academy of Natural Sciences"

The American Museum of Natural History is a landmark of Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York, USA, at 79th Street and Central Park West. ...more on Wikipedia about "American Museum of Natural History"

The Bergen Museum in Bergen, Norway, was founded in 1825, with the intent of building large collections in the fields of culture and natural history. The museum became the grounds for much academic activity, a tradition which has prevailed since the museum became part of the University of Bergen, which was founded in 1946. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bergen Museum"

The Bowers Museum is a museum in Santa Ana, in Orange County. It has existed for nearly 70 years, although its purpose and collections have considerably changed over that time. It is one of only 750 museums in America accredited by the American Association of Museums, and is the only museum in the United States to partner with the British Museum. Currently, it has on display permanent collections of Central American native artifacts and paintings of local, Californian scenes. It also has a large temporary exhibition space, a courtyard, a children's museum section, and a restaurant. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bowers Museum"

The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture is a museum in the northwest corner of the campus of the University of Washington, at the intersection of N.E. 45th Street and 15th Avenue N.E. in Seattle, Washington, USA's University District. It is the only major natural history museum in the Pacific Northwest. Its collection numbers over 5 million specimens, including totem poles, redcedar canoes, a dinosaur skeleton, fossils, and more. ...more on Wikipedia about "Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture"

The California Academy of Sciences is one of the ten largest natural history museums in the world. It is located in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, and comprises of an aquarium (the Steinhart Aquarium), planetarium, and natural history museum. The Academy began life in 1853 as a learned society and still carries out a large amount of original research, though its main role is now public education. The Academy's main buildings in Golden Gate Park are closed for major refurbishment until 2008, though it has reopened in temporary accommodation at 875 Howard Street as of May 1, 2004. ...more on Wikipedia about "California Academy of Sciences"

Ottawa, Canada's Canadian Museum of Nature is housed in the Victoria Memorial Museum Building, built in former farm fields in 1905. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canadian Museum of Nature" There's a bit of www.shortopedia.com in all of us. shortopedia

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum located approximately five miles (8 km) east of downtown Cleveland, Ohio in University Circle, a 500-acre (2 km²) concentration of educational, cultural and medical institutions. The museum was established in 1920 to perform research, education and development of collections in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, botany, geology, paleontology, wildlife biology, and zoology. The Shafran Planetarium was added to the museum in 2002. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cleveland Museum of Natural History"

The Cole Museum of Zoology forms part of the School of Animal and Microbial Sciences at the University of Reading and is located on the university's Whiteknights Campus in the town of Reading, England. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cole Museum of Zoology"

The Field Museum of Natural History, in Chicago, Illinois, USA, sits on Lake Shore Drive next to Lake Michigan, part of a scenic complex known as Museum Campus Chicago. ...more on Wikipedia about "Field Museum of Natural History"

The Houston Museum of Natural Science is a museum located in Houston, Texas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Houston Museum of Natural Science"

The Museum für Naturkunde (in English, the Museum of Natural History), widely known as the Humboldt Museum of Berlin, is the first national museum in the world, with a massive collection of more than 25 million zoological, paleontological, and minerological specimens, including more than ten thousand type specimens. It is most famous for two spectacular exhibits: the largest mounted dinosaur in the world, and the most exquisitely preserved specimen of the earliest known bird, Archaeopteryx. ...more on Wikipedia about "Humboldt Museum"

The Icelandic Phallological Museum in Húsavík, Iceland (formerly in Reykjavík) is a museum devoted to phallology. The museum currently has 154 specimens displayed like hunting trophies, embalmed in formaldehyde, or dried in display cases. The museum attempts to collect penis specimens from every mammal extant in Iceland, including several species that are endangered or currently extinct in Icelandic waters. ...more on Wikipedia about "Icelandic Phallological Museum"

The Manchester Museum is owned by the University of Manchester. It is one of the top three university museums in the United Kingdom. Sitting at the heart of the University's Neo-gothic buildings, it provides access to about six million items from every continent of the globe. Butterflies and carvings from India; birds and bark-cloth from the Pacific; live frogs and ancient pottery from The Americas; fossils and native art from Australia; mammals and ancient Egyptian craftsmanship from Africa; plants, coins and minerals from Europe; art from past civilisations of the Mediterranean; and beetles, armour and is the home of the "Simon archery collection". The museum has acquired a cast of a fossilised Tyrannosaurus rex from South Dakota called "Stan", which was unveiled on 4 November 2004. ...more on Wikipedia about "Manchester Museum"

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The Maryland Science Center, located in Baltimore, Maryland's Inner Harbor, opened to the public in 1976, with 3 levels of exhibits and a planetarium. Years later, an IMAX theater was added, but the museum continued to show its age as the end of the 20th century approached. In 2004, a large addition to the property was opened, and the modernized hands-on exhibits now include more than two dozen dinosaur skeletons. Subjects that the center displays include physical science, space, the human body, and blue crabs that live in the Chesapeake Bay. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maryland Science Center"

Museo Municipal Carmen Funes, or in English the Carmen Funes Municipal Museum, is a small museum in Plaza Huincul, Argentina with a collection of dinosaur fossils, including the only specimen of the largest dinosaur known, Argentinosaurus huinculensis; and the only known sauropod embryoes, which were discovered at a huge nesting site in Auca Mahuida, Patagonia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Museo Carmen Funes"

The Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro is a centenarian museum and research institution, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ...more on Wikipedia about "Museu Nacional (Brazil)"

Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi is a Brazilian research institution and museum located in the city of Belém, state of Pará. It was founded in 1866 as the Pará Museum of Natural History and Ethnography, and later named in honour of Swiss naturalist Émil August Goeldi, who reorganized the former institution and was its director from 1894 to 1905. ...more on Wikipedia about "Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi"

Museum Boerhaave is a natural history museum in Leiden, the Netherlands. The museum hosts a collection of historical scientific instruments from all disciplines, but mainly from Medicine, Physics, and Astronomy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Museum Boerhaave"

The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) is the French national museum of natural history and is classed as a grand établissement. ...more on Wikipedia about "Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle"

There are many Museums of Natural History around the world, including: ...more on Wikipedia about "Museum of Natural History" www.shortopedia.com Is Good For You.

The National Museum of Ireland (NMI) is the main museum in Ireland. It has three centres in Dublin and Mayo, with a strong emphasis on Irish art, culture and natural history. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Museum of Ireland"

The National Museum of Natural History is a museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Museum of Natural History"

The Natural History Museum, one of three large museums located on Exhibition Road, Kensington, London (the others are the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum), is home to life and earth science collections comprising some 70 million specimens or items. There are five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. There is also a wildlife garden containing many native fauna and flora. ...more on Wikipedia about "Natural History Museum"

Ireland's Natural History Museum is housed on Merrion Street in Dublin. A bronze statue of Surgeon-General T.H. Parke stands in front of the Victoria-era building. ...more on Wikipedia about "Natural History Museum (Ireland)"

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