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, Béni Abbès

Angola

[Museu Nacional de História Natural de Angola|National Museum of Natural History of Angola], Luanda

Kenya

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
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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

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

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
Thar Natural History Fossil Museum Churu, Rajasthan
Bombay Natural History Society
Thiruvananthapuram Natural History Museum

Indonesia

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, Fukui, Fukui Prefecture
Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture
Geological Museum, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture
Gunma Museum of Natural History, 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, 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

Mongolia

Oman

Natural History Museum of Muscat, Muscat

Pakistan

Pakistan Museum of Natural History

Palestine

Palestine Museum of Natural History

Philippines

Qatar

Qatar National Museum, Doha

Singapore

Taiwan

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, 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

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
El Museo de Insectos de la [Universidad de Costa Rica (MIUCR)]
Museo de Zoologia – Escuela de Biologia, University of Costa Rica
Museo Nacional de 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, Dornbirn
Krahuletz-Museum Eggenburg Earth sciences and history, Eggenburg
Landesmuseum für Kärnten, Klagenfurt Regional museum for the province Carinthia, Klagenfurt
Landesmuseum Niederösterreichisches, St. Pölten Nature, history, culture, and art of Lower Austria
Landschaftsmuseum im Schloss Trautenfels Natural and cultural history in upper Styria, 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

Museum of Nature and Archeology, Tenerife

Croatia

Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb
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
Fur Museum, Nederby
GeoCenter Møns Klint, Borre
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

Estonia

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, Hanover
Mineralogisches Museum, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg
, Bonn
Museum der Natur Gotha, Thuringia
Müritzeum, Waren
Museum der Natur Gotha, Gotha
Museum für Natur und Umwelt, Lübeck
Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Museum für Naturkunde Chemnitz, Chemnitz
Museum für Naturkunde Magdeburg, Magdeburg
Museum Heineanum Halberstadt
Museum Koenig, Bonn
Museum of Man and Nature, 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, Bad Dürkheim
Phyletisches Museum, Jena
Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg
Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde, Görlitz
State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart
State Museum of Zoology, Dresden
Südostbayerisches Naturkunde- und Mammut-Museum, Siegsdorf
Übersee-Museum Bremen, Bremen
Urwelt-Museum Hauff, 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, 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, Jászberény
Kazinczy Ferenc Múzeum, Sátoraljaújhely
Komlo Natural Science Collection, Komló
Mátra Múzeum, Gyöngyös
Mihály Munkácsy Museum, Békéscsaba
Móra Ferenc Múzeum, Szeged
Museum of Natural Sciences of Bakony, Zirc
Ottó Herman Museum, Miskolc

Iceland

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

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

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, 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, 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, Aiud
Museum of Oltenia, Craiova
Muzeul Banatului, 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, 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, Târgu Mureș
Székely National Museum, Sfântu Gheorghe
Szekler Museum of Ciuc, 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
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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

Slovenia

Natural History Museum of Slovenia, Ljubljana

Slovakia

East Slovakia Museum, Košice
Slovak National Museum, Bratislava

Spain

Cau del Cargol Conquilles del Món, Catalonia
Institut Paleontològic Dr. M. Crusafont, Sabadell
Museo de Ciencias de Arnedo, Arnedo
Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Álava
Museu de Ciències Naturals, Barcelona
Museo de Ciencias Naturales and Mocha Tower, Córdoba
Museo Geominero, Madrid
Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales, 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, Djurgården, Stockholm
Gotland Museum, Visby
Geological Museum Villa Heidelberg, Klimpfjäll
Göteborg Natural History Museum, Gothenburg
Malmö Museums – Natural History Museum, Malmö
Lund University Zoology Museum, Lund
Museum of Evolution of [Uppsala University|Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University], Uppsala
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm
Swedish Amber Museum, Höllviken

Switzerland

Musée cantonal de géologie, Lausanne
Musée cantonal de zoologie, Lausanne
Musée d'histoire naturelle de 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, Geneva
Naturhistorisches Museum Basel
Naturhistorisches Museum der Bürgergemeinde Bern, Bern
Natur-Museum Luzern, Lucerne
Naturhistorisches Museum der Universität Zürich, Zurich
Sauriermuseum Aathal, 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

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
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

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
[Niagara Falls Museum|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

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
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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, Chaco Province
Museo de Ciencias Naturales Carlos Darwin, 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 del Lago Gutierrez "Dr. Rosendo Pascual", Río Negro Province
Museo del Mar, Mar del Plata
Museo Gallardo, San Lorenzo
Museo Histórico y de Ciencias Naturales "Pago de los Lobos", Lobos
Museo Mariposa del Mundo, Butterflies of the World Museum, San Miguel
Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales de Monte Hermoso, Monte Hermoso
Museo Municipal de Historia Natural de Gral. Alvear/Gen. Alvear Municipal Museum of Natural History, General Alvear
Museo Municipal "Punta Hermengo" de Miramar, Buenos Aires
Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio
Museo Paleontológico y Petrolero Astra, Astra Museum of Paleontology and Oil, Chubut
Museo Provincial de Ciencias Naturales "Florentino Ameghino", Santa Fe
Museo Provincial de Ciencias Naturales Puerto Madryn
Museo Provincial de Historia Natural de La Pampa, La Pampa Province
Museo Regional de Ciencias Naturales "Prof. Rodolfo Parodi Bustos", Salta Province
Museo Regional Municipal de El Calafate/El Calafate Municipal Regional Museum, Santa Cruz Province
Museum of Natural Sciences "Augusto G. Schulz", Chaco Province
Museum of Paleontology "Egidio Feruglio"
Museum of Patagonia, Río Negro Province
Paleorama, Museo Itinerante, Buenos Aires
Museo Miguel Lillo de Ciencias Naturales, Tucuman Province

Bolivia

Museo de Anatomía de la Universidad de San Francisco Xavier
Museo de Historia Natural, La Paz
Museo de History Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz
Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d'Orbigny, Cochabamba

Brazil

Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia – USP, São Paulo, SP
Museu de Ciências Naturais – PUC MINAS, Belo Horizonte, MG
Museu Entomológico Fritz Plaumann, Santa Catarina
Museu Geológico Valdemar Lefèvre, São Paulo, SP
Museu de Geociências – USP, São Paulo, SP
Museu de História Natural de Taubaté, Taubaté
Museu de Historia Natural Capão da Imbuia Wood, Curitiba
Museu Nacional, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém
Museu de Rochas, Minerais e Minérios – USP, São Paulo, SP
Museum of Veterinary Anatomy FMVZ USP, São Paulo
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo state
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo

Chile

Colombia

Museo de Historia Natural, Popayán
Museo La Salle, Bogotá
Museo Prehistórico
National University of Colombia, Bogotá:
*Museo de Historia Natural
*Museo Entomológico
*Museo Paleontológico
Botanic Garden Medellín

Ecuador

Gustavo Orcés V. Natural History Museum, Quito

Guyana

Guyana National Museum, Georgetown

Paraguay

Botanical Garden and Zoo of Asunción, Asunción

Peru

Museum of Natural History, Lima, National University of San Marcos, Lima
Museo La Salle, Lima

Trinidad and Tobago

The [University of the West Indies Zoology Museum], Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Uruguay

Museo del Mar, La Barra del Maldonado
National Museum of Natural History, Montevideo

Venezuela

Museo de Biología de la Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Caracas
Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Guanare
Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Caracas
Museo de la Estación Biológica de Rancho Grande
Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola 'Francisco Fernández, Aragua
Museo Marino, Boca de Río
Museo Oceanologico Hermano Benigno Roman de la Fundación La Salle, Punta de Piedras, Isla Margarita
Museo Paleontológico de Urumaco, Urumaco
Museum Entomológico, Colección de Insectos de Interés Agrícola y su combate Insect Collection Interest Agricultural
William Phelps Ornithological Collection, Caracas

List of natural history museums

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Tunisia

Uganda

Zimbabwe

Asia

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China

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India

Indonesia

Iran

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Oman

Pakistan

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Philippines

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Taiwan

Thailand

Turkey

United Arab Emirates

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

Central America

Belize

Costa Rica

Dominican Republic

Grenada

Guatemala

Honduras

Nicaragua

Panama

Europe

Albania

Austria

Belarus

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Canary Islands

Croatia

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Greece

Greenland

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg