Ali Demirsoy Natural History Museum
Ali Demirsoy Natural History Museum is a museum in Kemaliye, Turkey.
The museum is in the campus of Hacı Ali Akın Multi-Program Highschool in Kemaliye ilçe, of Erzincan Province. Its founder is Professor Ali Demirsoy of Hacettepe University. It is supported by Tubitak.
Exhibited items
Exhibited items are the following:- Various minerals and rocks
- Gastropoda, bivalvia and echinodermata from Kemaliye area
- Single cell plants and animals
- Lichens, the earliest living forms on soil
- Algae from Kemaliye area
- Some invertebrates in formaldehyde and alcohol
- Herbarium and insects on panels
- Fishes in formaldehyde and alcohol
- Amphibians in Formaldehyde and alcohol
- Venomous snakes and other reptiles in formaldehyde and alcohol
- Birds in formaldehyde and alcohol
- Examples of stuffed mammalia such as bear, wolf, wildcat, marten, mountain goat, badger, squirrel, rodents etc.native to area.
- Herbarium of more than half of all plants native to Kemaliye area