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List of natural history museums

This is a list of natural history 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.

Africa

Algeria Beni Abbes Museum (Musee de Beni-Abbes), Béni Abbès

Angola National Museum of Natural History of Angola (Museu Nacional de História Natural de Angola), Luanda

Botswana Botswana National Museum, Gaborone

Egypt Egyptian Geological Museum, Cairo Alexandria Aquarium Museum, Alexandria

Ethiopia Zoological Natural History Museum, Addis Ababa

Kenya Kitale Museum, Kitale National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi

Mozambique Museu de História Natural de Moçambique, Maputo

Namibia National Earth Science Museum, Geological Survey of Namibia, Windhoek

Nigeria Natural History Museum, OAU, Ifẹ, located at the Obafemi Awolowo University

South Africa Albany Museum, Grahamstown Amathole Museum, King William's Town Bleloch Geological Museum, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Wits Life Sciences Museum, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg CP Nel Museum, Oudtshoorn Natural Science Museum, Durban Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town McGregor Museum, Kimberley KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg National Museum, Bloemfontein Port Elizabeth Museum, Port Elizabeth Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, Pretoria West Coast Fossil Park, Langebaanweg

Sudan Sudan Natural History Museum, Khartoum

Tanzania Olduvai Gorge Museum, Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Tunisia Musée Océanographique de Salammbô, Carthage

Uganda Zoology Museum, Makarere University, Kampala Makerere University Herbarium, Makarere University, Kampala Uganda Museum, Kampala Herbarium, Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Kabale

Zimbabwe Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo

Asia

Armenia Geological Museum, Yerevan Natural History Museum, Yerevan

Azerbaijan Natural History Museum named after Hasanbey Zardabi, Baku Azerbaijan Geology Museum, Baku "Rinay" Malacofauna Museum, Baku

China Shanghai Natural History Museum, Shanghai Chongqing Natural History Museum, Chongqing Tianjin Natural History Museum, Tianjin Beijing Museum of Natural History, Beijing Bird Fossil National Geopark, Chaoyang Geological Museum of China, Beijing Geological Museum of Guizhou, Guiyang Dalian Natural History Museum, Dalian Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, Hangzhou Neimenggu Museum of Natural History, Huhhot Wuhan Museum of Natural History, Wuhan Guangxi Museum of Natural History, Nanning Shanxi Museum of Natural History, Xi'an Jilin Museum of Natural History, Changchun Tianyu Museum of Natural History, Pingyi Zigong Dinosaur Museum, Zigong

Hong Kong Stephen Hui Geological Museum, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

India Bengal Natural History Museum, Darjeeling Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Museum of Western India, Mumbai Gass Forest Museum, Coimbatore Government Museum, Egmore, Chennai Indian Museum, Kolkata Napier Museum, Kerala National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi (1972–2016) Thar Natural History Fossil Museum Churu, Rajasthan Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) Thiruvananthapuram Natural History Museum

Indonesia Gedong Arca Museum, Bandung Bogor Zoology Museum, Bogor Bandung Geological Museum, Bandung

Iran Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum, Tehran Hamedan Museum of Natural History, Hamedan Museum of Natural History and Technology, Shiraz Natural History Museum, University of Zanjan, Zanjan Natural History Museum of Isfahan, Isfahan Iran Museum of Natural History and Wildlife, Tehran Natural History Museum, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad Natural History Museum, Institute of Botany and Plant Pests, Tehran Natural History Museum, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar Tabriz Museum of Natural History, Tabriz

Iraq Iraq Natural History Museum, Baghdad

Israel Geological Museum, Jerusalem Natural History Museum, Jerusalem The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem Biblical Museum of Natural History, Beit Shemesh

Japan Abiko City Museum of Birds, Abiko, Chiba Prefecture Ashoro Museum of Paleontology, Ashoro, Hokkaidō Prefecture Chūrui Naumann Elephant Museum, Makubetsu, Hokkaido Prefecture Fukui City Museum of Natural History (in Japanese), Fukui, Fukui Prefecture Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture Geological Museum, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture Gunma Museum of Natural History (in Japanese), Tomioka, Gunma Prefecture Hiroshima City Ebayama Museum of Meteorology, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture Ibaraki Nature Museum, Bandō, Ibaraki Prefecture Itami City Museum of Insects, Itami, Hyogo Prefecture Iwaki City Coal & Fossil Museum, Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History (in Japanese), Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture Kannonzaki Nature Museum, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka Prefecture Kuji Amber Museum, Kuji, Iwate Prefecture Kyushu University Museum, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture Lake Nojiri Naumann Elephant Museum, Shinano, Nagano Prefecture Meguro Parasitological Museum, Meguro, Tokyo Museum of Natural History, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Sanda, Hyōgo Prefecture National Hansen's Disease Museum, Higashimurayama, Tokyo National Museum of Nature and Science, Taitō, Tokyo Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture Natural History Museum and Zoological Park, Toyohashi, Aichi prefecture Natural History Museum Kutchan, Kutchan, Hokkaidō Nawa Insect Museum, Gifu, Gifu Prefecture Okhotsk Sea Ice Museum of Hokkaidō, Monbetsu, Hokkaidō Osaka Museum of Natural History, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture Pearl Museum, Mikimoto Pearl Island, Toba, Mie Prefecture Saitama Museum of Natural History, Nagatoro, Saitama Prefecture Shibetsu Salmon Science Museum, Shibetsu, Hokkaidō Tropical Medicine Museum, Nagasaki University Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture Tsuyama Museum of Science Education, Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture

Jordan Pella Museum, Amman

South Korea Bandi Land Insect Museum, Muju County Ewha Womans University Natural History Museum, Seoul Gyeoryongsan Natural History Museum Seodaemun Museum of Natural History, Seoul

Kyrgyzstan Geological Museum and Mineralogical Museum, Bishkek

Malaysia Muzium Negara, Kuala Lumpur Natural History Museum, Putrajaya

Mongolia Central Museum of Mongolian Dinosaurs, Ulaanbaatar Mongolian Natural History Museum, Ulaanbaatar

Oman Natural History Museum of Muscat, Muscat

Pakistan Pakistan Museum of Natural History

Palestine Palestine Museum of Natural History

Philippines National Museum of Natural History, Manila UPLB Museum of Natural History, University of the Philippines Los Baños

Qatar Qatar National Museum, Doha

Singapore Science Centre Singapore Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum

Taiwan Insect Science Museum, Taipei National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung National Museum of Taiwan History, Tainan City National Taiwan Museum, Taipei City National Chiayi University Insect Museum, Chiayi City

Thailand Thailand National Science Museum, Pathum Thani Chulalongkorn University Museum of Natural History, Bangkok Chulalongkorn University's Geological Museum, Bangkok Chulalongkorn University's Traditional Medicine Museum, Bangkok Mahidol University's Mollusk Museum, Bangkok Mahidol University's Mosquito Museum, Bangkok Mahidol University's Bio-Geo Path, Bangkok Rattanakosin Natural History Museum, Kasetsart University, Bangkok Veterinarical Anatomy Museum, Kasetsart University, Bangkok Pathology Museum, Kasetsart University, Bangkok Kasetsart University's Ant Museum, Bangkok Kasetsart University's Zoological Museum, Bangkok Kasetsart University Museum of Fisheries (Natural History), Bangkok Kasetsart University's 60th Anniversary Museum and Park of Insects, Bangkok Lichen Museum, Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok Bangkok Butterfly and Insect Park, Bangkok Dusit Zoo Museum, Bangkok Soil Museum, Bangkok Geological Museum, Bangkok Horn and Antler Museum, Bangkok Biological Science Museum at Faculaty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai Chiang Mai University's Geological Museum, Chiang Mai Museum of World Insects and Natural Heritages, Chiang Mai Lignite Learning Centre Museum, Lampang King Mongkut Memeorail Park of Science and Technology, Prachuap Khiri Khan Natural History Park, Ratchaburi Phu Wiang Dinosaur Museum, Khon Kaen Sirindhorn Museum, Kalasin Thai Island and Sea Natural History Museum, Chonburi Chonlatassanasathan Museum, Chonburi Phuket Seashell Museum, Phuket Bangkok Seashell Museum, Bangkok Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Natural History Museum, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai Prince of Songkla University's Traditional Medicine Museum, Hat Yai Natural History Museum and Local Learning Networks, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani

Turkey Forestry Museum, also known as Watch Mansion, Bursa MTA Natural History Museum, Ankara

United Arab Emirates Sharjah Natural History Museum, Sharjah Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi

Uzbekistan Tabiat muzeyi, Tashkent

Vietnam Vietnam National Museum of Nature, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi

Central America

Belize Chaa Creek Natural History Museum, San Ignacio

Costa Rica Museo de Ciencias Naturales La Salle(La Salle Natural Sciences Museum) El Museo de Insectos de la Universidad de Costa Rica (MIUCR) (The Museum of Insects at the University of Costa Rica) Museo de Zoologia – Escuela de Biologia, University of Costa Rica Museo Nacional de Costa Rica(National Museum of Costa Rica), San José

Dominican Republic Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Santo Domingo Amber Museum, Puerto Plata Amber World Museum, Santo Domingo

Grenada Museo de Ciencias

Guatemala Museo Nacional de Historia Natural "Jorge A. Ibarra" Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala Museo de Paleontologia y Arqueologia Ing. Roberto Woolfolk Saravia, Estanzuela Zacapa

Honduras Butterfly and Insect Museum, La Ceiba

Nicaragua Museo Ciencias Naturales de la Universidad Centroamericana, Managua Museo de Ometepe, Rivas Museo del Departamento de Malacología UCA, Managua Museo entomológico, León Museo Gemológico de la Concha y el Caracol, Managua Museo Paleontológico "El Hato", Managua Museos de Geología UNAN, Managua Museum Ecológico de Trópico Seco, Diriamba National Museum, Managua Sitio Paleontológico El Bosque, Estelí

Panama Centro de Exhibiciones Marinas de Punta Culebra, Panama City Museo de Ciencias Naturales Panama, Panama City Museum of Biodiversity, Panama City Colección Zoológica Dr. Eustorgio Méndez, Panama City Museo de Vertebrados de la Universidad de Panamá, Panama City Museo de Invertebrados de la Universidad de Panamá, Panama City Museo de Malacología de la Universidad de Panamá, Panama City Círculo Herpetológico de Panamá, Panama City Herbario de la Universidad de Panamá, Panama City

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 Museum of Boulders Museum of Nature, Belovezhskaya Pushcha Nature Reserve

Belgium Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren Aquarium-Museum of Liège Museum of Natural History and Vivarium, Tournai Regional Museum of Natural Sciences, Mons Gents Universiteitsmuseum, Ghent Museum of Zoology Auguste Lameere, Brussels Museum of Natural History Boekenberg, Antwerp Museum of Zoology of KU Leuven, Leuven Museum of the Iguanodon, Bernissart MuseOs, Koksijde

Bosnia and Herzegovina National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo

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)

Museum of Nature and Archeology (Museo de la Naturaleza y Arqueología), Tenerife

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 Moravian Museum, Brno National Museum (Prague), Prague Chlupáč's Museum of the History of Earth, Prague Městské muzeum Čáslav, Čáslav

Denmark Copenhagen Amber Museum, Copenhagen Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen Fossil and Mo-clay Museum, near Sejerslev (northern Mors Island) Fur Museum, Nederby (on Fur Island) GeoCenter Møns Klint, Borre (eastern Møn) Gram Natural History Museum, Gram Museum of Evolution at Knuthenborg Safaripark, Bandholm NaturBornholm, Aakirkeby Naturhistorisk Museum, Aarhus Naturama, Svendborg Stevns Klint Experience, Rødvig Wadden Sea Centre, Vester Vedsted (near Ribe)

Estonia

Estonian Museum of Natural History, Tallinn Ice Age Centre, Tartu University of Tartu Natural History Museum, Tartu

Finland Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki Geological Museum, University of Oulu, Oulu Mineralogical Museum of the Geological Survey of Finland, Espoo Tampere Mineral Museum, Tampere Natural History Museum of Tampere

France Aquarium Museum, Nancy Citadel of Besançon, Besançon 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 National Museum of Natural History, Paris

Georgia "Animal World" – Nature Museum, Tbilisi Georgian National Museum, Institute of Palaeobiology Museum of Georgian Geophysical Sciences History, Tbilisi

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 Mineralogical Museum, Bonn Museum der Natur Gotha, Thuringia Müritzeum, Waren (Müritz) Museum der Natur Gotha, Gotha Museum für Natur und Umwelt, Lübeck Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, 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 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 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 Arctic Fox Centre, Súðavík Höfn Glacier Museum, Höfn Húsavík Whale Museum, Húsavík Icelandic Phallological Museum, Reykjavík Natural History Museum of Kópavogur, Kópavogur Volcano House, Reykjavík Whales of Iceland, Reykjavík

Ireland Natural History Museum, Dublin Trinity College Dublin Zoological Museum James Mitchell Geological Museum, National University of Ireland, Galway

Italy Museo Civico Scienze Naturali Enrico Caffi, Bergamo University Museums, University of Bologna, Bologna Museo della Preistoria Luigi Donini, San Lazzaro di Savena, Bologna Museo del Fossile del Monte Baldo, Brentonico, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol 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 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 Museo di Storia Naturale, University of Pavia, Pavia Museo di Archeologia, University of Pavia, Pavia Museo di Mineralogia, University of Pavia, Pavia Natural History Museum, Pisa Museo Geologico delle Dolomiti, Predazzo, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Museo Civico di Zoologia di Roma, Rome Geological Museum, Rome 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 Museo Civico 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 Latvian National Museum of Natural History

Liechtenstein Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz

Lithuania Palanga Amber Museum, Palanga Tadas Ivanauskas Zoological Museum, Kaunas

Luxembourg National Museum of Natural History Luxembourg, Luxembourg City

Macedonia Macedonian Museum of Natural History, Skopje

Malta National Museum of Natural History, Mdina

Moldova National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, Chișinău

Monaco Oceanographic Museum, Monaco-Ville

Montenegro Natural History Museum of Montenegro, Podgorica

The Netherlands Naturalis (or National Museum of Natural History), Leiden Natuurmuseum Brabant, Tilburg 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 Agder Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden, Kristiansand Bergen Museum, Bergen Naturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo (Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo), Oslo NTNU University Museum, Trondheim Paleontologisk Museum, Universitetet i Oslo (Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo), Oslo Tromsø University Museum, Tromsø

Poland Museum of Evolution Warsaw, Warsaw Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław, Wrocław Natural History Museum of the Białowieża National Park, Białowieża Forest Upper Silesian Museum (Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytomiu), Bytom Museum of the Earth Warsaw, Warsaw Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw Muzeum Przyrodnicze Instytutu Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierząt PAN, Kraków

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 Colți 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 Babeș-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 Științe Naturale), Aiud Museum of Oltenia, Craiova Muzeul Banatului (Banat Museum), Timișoara Muzeul de Istorie Naturală – Iași, Iași Muzeul de Științe ale Naturii Piatra Neamț; see also Iași, Romania Museums, Iași Muzeul de Științele Naturii Roman, Roman Muzeul Național de Istorie Naturală Grigore Antipa (Grigore Antipa Natural History Museum), Bucharest Muzeul Țării Crișurilor, 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, Constanța Natural Sciences Museum Complex Galați, Galați Paleontological and Stratighraphical Museum of the Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca Prahova County Natural Sciences Museum, Ploiești Sediul Muzeului de Științele Naturii (Mureș County Museum, Natural History Department), Târgu Mureș Székely National Museum (Székely Nemzeti Múzeum), Sfântu Gheorghe Szekler Museum of Ciuc (Csíky Székely Múzeum), Miercurea-Ciuc Vrancea Museum, Natural Sciences Department, Focșani

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 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 Museum of Natural History (Prirodnjački muzej), Belgrade Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad Museum of Natural History, Novi Sad

Slovenia Natural History Museum of Slovenia (Prirodoslovni muzej Slovenije), Ljubljana

Slovakia East Slovakia Museum, Košice Slovak National Museum, Bratislava

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, Mallorca 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

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 Lund University Zoology Museum (Lunds Universitet Zoologiska museet), Lund Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University (Evolutions Museet Uppsala Universitet), Uppsala Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm Swedish Amber Museum, Höllviken

Switzerland Musée cantonal de géologie (Cantonal Museum of Geology), Lausanne Musée cantonal de zoologie (Cantonal Museum of Zoology), Lausanne Musée d'histoire naturelle de Fribourg (Natural History Museum of Fribourg), Fribourg Museo Cantonale di Storia Naturale, Lugano Museo dei fossili di Meride / Museo dei fossili del Monte San Giorgio, Meride Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève (Natural History Museum of Geneva), Geneva Naturhistorisches Museum Basel (Natural History Museum Basel) Naturhistorisches Museum der Bürgergemeinde Bern (Natural History Museum of Bern), Bern Natur-Museum Luzern, Lucerne Naturhistorisches Museum der Universität Zürich (Natural History Museum of the University of Zurich), Zurich Sauriermuseum Aathal (Aathal Dinosaur Museum), Aathal

Turkey Istanbul Zoology Museum

Ukraine National Museum of Natural History at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv State Museum of Natural History, former Didushytskyi museum, Lviv Zoological Museum of Kyiv University, Kyiv Zoological Museum of Kharkiv University, Kharkiv Zoological Museum of Lviv University, Lviv Zoological Museum of Luhansk University, Luhansk Zoological Museum of Taurida University, Simferopol Scientific Museum of Nikitsky Botanical Garden, Yalta Odessa Archeological Museum

United Kingdom

England Bagshaw Museum, Batley Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton Bournemouth Natural Science Society Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol Buxton Museum & Art Gallery, Buxton Camborne School of Mines Mineral Museum, Tremough, Cornwall Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge Charnwood Museum, Loughborough, Leicestershire Chelmsford Museum, Chelmsford Cole Museum of Zoology, Reading Crab Museum, Margate 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 Rotunda Museum, Scarborough Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Tolson Museum, Huddersfield 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 Bell Pettigrew Museum, University of St Andrews, St Andrews Creetown Gem Rock Museum, Creetown, Galloway D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, University of Dundee, Dundee Elgin Museum, Elgin, Moray Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow National Museums of Scotland, Royal Museum, Edinburgh Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow University of Aberdeen Zoology Museum, Aberdeen

Wales National Museum Cardiff Falconry Heritage Trust, Carmarthen

Northern Ireland Ulster Museum, Belfast

North America

Bermuda Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute, Hamilton

Canada

Alberta Banff Park Museum, Banff Devil's Coulee Dinosaur Heritage Museum, Warner Glenbow Museum, Calgary Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, Wembley Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton Torrington Gopher Hole Museum, Torrington University of Alberta Museums, Edmonton University of Calgary Zoology Museum, Calgary

British Columbia Alpine Taxidermy & Wildlife Museum, Grand Forks Beaty Biodiversity Museum, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canadian Wildlife Museum, Vernon Museum of Natural History, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Centre, Osoyoos Pacific Museum of the Earth, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria

Manitoba B.J. Hales Museum of Natural History, Brandon University, Brandon (closed) Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre, Morden Ed Leith Cretaceous Menagerie, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Irvin Goodon International Wildlife Museum, Boissevain Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg Robert B. Ferguson Museum of Mineralogy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Sam Waller Museum, The Pas Whiteshell Natural History Museum, Whiteshell Provincial Park, Nutimik Lake

New Brunswick Atlantic Salmon Museum, Doaktown Cape Jourimain Nature Centre, Cape Jourimain Grand Manan Museum, Grand Manan Gaskin Museum of Marine Life, Miramichi History Museum, Miramichi Miramichi Salmon Conservation Centre, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre, Saint Andrews Parish

Newfoundland Newfoundland Insectarium, Reidville Johnson Geo Centre, St. John's Suncor Energy Fluvarium, St. John's The Rooms, St. John's Northwest Territories

Nature's North Wildlife Gallery, Yellowknife Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife

Nova Scotia A.D. Pickett Entomology Museum, Dalhousie University Faculty of Agriculture, Truro Fundy Geological Museum, Parrsboro Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, Halifax Sea Turtle Centre, Halifax Thomas McCulloch Museum, Dalhousie University, Halifax

Ontario 1000 Islands History Museum, Gananoque Aquatarium, Brockville Arkona Lions Museum, Arkona Ball's Falls Centre for Conservation, Ball's Falls, Ontario Bonnechere Museum, Bonnechere Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa Dynamic Earth, Sudbury Entomica Insectarium, Sault Ste. Marie Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto The Earth Sciences Museum, University of Waterloo, Waterloo The Miller Museum of Geology, Queen's University at Kingston Museum of Northern History, Kirkland Lake The Niagara Falls Museum, Niagara Falls Pelee Island Heritage Centre, Pelee Science North, Greater Sudbury Stones 'N Bones Museum, Sarnia

Quebec Lake Timiskaming Fossil Centre, Quebec City Montreal Biosphere, Montreal Montreal Insectarium, Montreal Musée de la Nature et des Sciences, Sherbrooke Musee du Fjord, La Baie Musée de Paléontologie et de l'Evolution, Montreal Musée Minéralogique d'Asbestos, Asbestos Musée minèralogique et minier de Thetford Mines, Thetford Mines Redpath Museum, Montreal Sherbrooke Nature and Science Museum, Sherbrooke

Saskatchewan Abernethy Nature-Heritage Museum, Abernethy Ancient Echoes Interpretive Center, Herschel Museum of Natural Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina T.rex Discovery Centre, Eastend

Yukon Kluane Museum of Natural History, Burwash Landing Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre, Whitehorse

Mexico Caracol, Museo de Ciencias de Ensenada, Ensenada Museo de Geología UNAM, Mexico City Museo de Historia Natural de Cabo San Lucas, Cabo San Lucas Museo de Historia Natural de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City Museo de las Aves de México, Coahuila Museo de Paleontología de Delicias, Chihuahua Museo de Paleontología de Guadalajara, Guadalajara Museo de Paleontología- UNAM, Mexico City Museo del Desierto, Coahuila Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City Tamux – Museo de Historia Natural de Tamaulipas, Tamaulipas Museo Paleontológico en Tocuila, Texcoco

United States

Oceania

Australia Age of Fishes Museum, Canowindra, New South Wales Australian Museum, Sydney Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum, Bathurst, New South Wales Biological Sciences Museum at Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales Broken Hill Geo Centre, Broken Hill, New South Wales Butterfly Farm, Wilberforce, New South Wales The Crystal Caves, North Queensland Crystal Kingdom, Coonabarabran, New South Wales Earth Sciences Museum, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales Emmaville Mining Museum, Emmaville, New South Wales Eumundi Museum, Eumundi, Queensland Kronosaurus Korner, Richmond, Queensland Macleay Museum – Sydney University, Sydney Mining and Minerals Education Centre, Tasmanian Minerals Council, Hobart, Tasmania Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin Museum of Central Australia, Alice Springs, Northern Territory Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville Museum Victoria, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne National Dinosaur Museum, Nicholls, Australian Capital Territory Queensland Museum, Brisbane Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania South Australian Museum, Adelaide Tate Museum, a geological museum at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania Western Australian Museum, Perth Western Australian Museum, Albany, Albany Western Australian Museum Geraldton, Geraldton Western Australian Museum, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder

Indonesia Museum Geologi Bandung, Bandung Museum Geologi Bandung Museum Zoologi Bandung Zoo, Bandung Bogor Zoological Museum Kebun Raya Bogor, Bogor Museum Serangga dan Kupu-Kupu, Bogor Museum Zoologi Ragunan Zoo, Jakarta Museum Purbakala Sangiran, Sragen Museum Patiayam, Pati Museum Gunung Merapi, Yogyakarta Museum Karst, Wonogiri Museum Batu Mulia and Artefak Neolithikum, Purbalingga Museum Gunung Api Batur, Bali Gedong Arca Museum, Bali Bali Shell Museum, Bali Museum Sumatera Utara, Medan Zoological Museum of Pematangsiantar, Pematangsiantar Museum Batubara, Sawahlunto Bukittinggi Zoological Museum, Bukittingi Museum Sulawesi Tengah, Palu Museum Mandar Majene, Majene

New Zealand Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland Canterbury Museum, Christchurch Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington Otago Museum, Dunedin Southland museum and art gallery, Invercargill Te Manawa: Museum, Gallery, Science Centre, Palmerston North

Papua New Guinea National Agricultural Insect Collection, Port Moresby

South America

Argentina Dr. Ángel Gallardo Provincial Natural Sciences Museum, Rosario Instituto y Museo de Ciencias Naturales, San Juan Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", Buenos Aires Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales "Lorenzo Scaglia" Mar del Plata Museo Carmen Funes, Plaza Huincul Museo de Ciencias Naturales Augusto G. Schulz" de Resistencia (Museum of Natural Sciences), Chaco Province Museo de Ciencias Naturales Carlos Darwin (Carlos Darwin Museum of Natural Sciences), Buenos Aires Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Museo de Ciencias Naturales y Antropológicas "Juan Cornelio Moyano", Mendoza Museo de Geología Mineralogía y Palentología, Jujuy Museo de Geología y Paleontología, Neuquen Museo de Historia Natural "Francisco Javier Muñiz" de Moreno, Moreno Partido Museo de La Plata, Buenos Aires Museo de Mineralogia y Geologia Dr. A. Stelzner Museo de Paleontologia, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba Museo de

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