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National Museum of Natural History - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The National Museum of Natural History is a museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum's collections total over 125 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and human cultural artifacts. The museum is also home to about 185 professional natural history scientists— the largest group of scientists dedicated to the study of the natural and cultural history in the world. The museum was established in 1910, with its building designed by Hornblower and Marshall. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Museum_of_Natural_History   (363 words)

Natural History Museums and Collections Museums of Natural History at Tøyen (Tøyen, Norway) Natural History Museums (from U.C. Berkeley Museum of Paleontology) Virginia Museum of Natural History at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA) www.lib.washington.edu /sla/natmus.html   (1773 words)

Heritage Malta The National Museum of Natural History was set up in the palace in 1973. The museum focuses mainly on the faunal aspects of natural sciences and the current displays cover themes such as human evolution, insects, birds and habitats and marine ecosystems. The Museum is housed in the 18th century Magisterial Palace of Justice within the medieval walled city of Mdina. www.heritagemalta.org /naturalhistorymuseum.html   (335 words)

National Museum of Natural History: Vision & Mission The National Museum of Natural History was established as one of the national level institution during the Silver Jubilee celebrations of India's Independence, to portray and promote awareness on the Natural Heritage of the country. The National Museum of Natural History, an institution devoted to environmental education, the first of its kind in India, derives its strength from theme based permanent galleries, hands-on activity areas like Discovery Room, Activity Room, and holding of hosts of education and extension activities regionally, nationally and internationally. The National Museum of Natural History will be revitalized in its existing rented premises by way of revamping its public areas and facilities in more innovative ways with incorporation of modern technology and techniques. nmnh.nic.in /vision.htm   (772 words)

National Museum of Natural History - Dinosaur Exhibits National Museum of Natural History - Dinosaur Exhibits This virtual tour of the National Museum of Natural History's dinosaurs is just the first step in informing you about our work with dinosaurs at the Smithsonian. This site was created to provide a glimpse of some of the dinosaur specimens we have on view at the National Museum of Natural History. www.nmnh.si.edu /paleo/dino   (341 words)

Natural History Museums Museums of Natural History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Massachusetts Museum of Natural History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève (Museum of Natural History, Geneva) www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /subway/nathistmus.html   (375 words)

Museum of Natural History - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, United States. Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut (United States). There are many Museums of Natural History around the world, including: en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Museum_of_Natural_History   (193 words)

Information Desk - National Museum of Natural History The National Museum of Natural History is open every day of the year except December 25. Admission to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is free and no tickets are required for entrance to the museum. National Museum of Natural History internet servers are maintained by the NMNH Research and Collections, Informatics Office. www.mnh.si.edu /info_desk.html   (1243 words)

NMNHS - National Museum of Natural History During this period thanks to his international prestige a number of fruitful international contacts with mineralogical museums from Europe, North and South America and Australia were established. One of the purpose is presentation of the national and world wealth of minerals in its variety, morhpo-structural features and aesthetic value. During that period most of the samples used as a base of the new exposition established after reconstructing of the Museum as independent institution in 1974 had been collected. www.cl.bas.bg /nmnh/en/index.asp?go=struct&sh=minerals   (668 words)

MMTT - Natural History Museum The Iran’s National Museum for Natural History has embarked on a number of exciting and ambitious programs These are designed to provide specimens, facts, data, and displays that will shed scientific light, and provide public information on several aspects of regional national history. The displays and exhibits of the Museum are designed to stimulate the interest, to increase the knowledge, and to influence the opinions of the Iranian public concerning its heritage of natural history and its responsibilities towards it. Concerned not only with the natural sciences, the museum also serves the environmental and conservation authority as a library-a place for establishing its maintaining its terms of reference, and a place for cataloguing and assessing the results of its programs. www.biodiversity.ir /mmtt/mmtt.htm   (1451 words)

160 th. ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY The National Museum of Natural History was created on 4 september 1837 when tne Commission chaired by Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga and Teodoro Vilardebó was appointed to organize a National Library and Museum. When he came to Uruguay he studied the collections of the National Museum of Natural History, as well as diverse private collections, and accomplished in this way remarkable research works on mmals and fossil birds. Today the scientific collections of the Museum represent the most important wealth in Natural History Literature in Uruguay. www.correo.com.uy /filatelia/frames/museo_ingles.htm   (373 words)

The Natural History Museum The National Museum of Natural History/National Museum of Man is the nation's largest research museum, responsible for maintaining and conderving a treasure house of more than 118 million specimens of plants, animals rocks and minerals, fossils and human cultural artifacts. This encyclopedic collection is an essential resourcefor the nation's scientific enterprises, providing fundamental documentation for the study of the history of life, earth sciences, the biological living world, and human origins and cultures. The bulk of the collection is stored behind the scenes in laboratories, offices, and storage areas, where it serves as the focal point of research conducted by the museum's staff of 120 scientists and their colleagues from the universities, other museums, and U.S. government agencies. sc94.ameslab.gov /TOUR/nathist.html   (187 words)

National Museum of Ireland Welcome to the National Museum of Ireland - the nation’s premier cultural institution and that with the strongest emphasis on Ireland’s art, material culture and natural history. The National Museum of Ireland is currently organising a major new exhibition, due to open in late 2005, telling the stories of Irish soldiers, their families and Irish civilians affected by war, across 450 years of history. For the first time in the history of the organization the entire national reserve collections of silver, glass and oriental collections as well as a fraction of the Museum's Ceramics collection are on view in this new visible storage facility. www.museum.ie   (409 words)

Slovenian Museum of Natural History - A museum with national, European, and world wide collections demonstrating the changes in biodiversity, the development of Natural History thought, as well as different techniques of collection and preparation of samples. A national museum with natural history, scientifical, and educational contents. - It is the oldest cultural and scientific Slovene institution stemming from the Carniolian Museum founded in 1821. www2.pms-lj.si /pmsgb.html   (72 words)

Welcome to the Natural History Museum The Natural History Museum is the only West Coast venue for this international touring exhibit, which explores 10,000 years of rituals and sacrifice in northwestern Europe. The Natural History Museum has invited a spectrum of musicians and composers to create music inspired by our collections. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007 (213) 763-DINO www.nhm.org   (202 words)

The NMNH Virtual Tour elcome to the exhibits at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Visit any exhibit hall and discover the joys of natural history. The Museum displays treasures of nature and of humankind. www.mnh.si.edu /museum/VirtualTour   (86 words)

Homepage of National Museum of Natural History, Government of India National Museum of Natural History is an institution devoted to non-formal environmental education National Museum of Natural History, FICCI Museum Building, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi-110001. Homepage of National Museum of Natural History, Government of India nmnh.nic.in   (70 words)

National Museum of Natural History Museum/Attraction Review Washington, D.C. Frommers.com Whatever you call it, the National Museum of Natural History is the largest of its kind in the world, and one of the most visited museums in Washington. The Natural History museum, like its sister Smithsonian museums, is struggling to overhaul and modernize its exhibits, some of which are quite dated in appearance, if not in the facts presented. The theater box office is on the first floor of the museum; purchase tickets as early as possible, or at least 30 minutes before the screening. www.frommers.com /destinations/washingtondc/A21247.html   (956 words)

A digest on the National Museum of Natural History in Paris by Paris Digest, the Paris Internet city guide and portall A heritage of the Royal Medicinal Plant Garden created in 1635, the National Museum of Natural History displays its unique collections in a number of buildings located inside the beautiful Plant Garden (Jardin des Plantes in French). Its main attractions are the spectacularly renovated Great Hall of Evolution devoted to the evolution of life, the gallery of paleontology with a fine collection of dinosaurs, giant birds and insects, the gallery of mineralogy with over 600 000 mineral samples including unique giant cristals and royal precious stones. Left, the dinosaurs, one of the attractions of the museum, were made famous by Jurassic Park. www.parisdigest.com /withchildren/museum.htm   (195 words)

The National Museum of Natural History - Smithsonian Institution The National Museum of Natural History - Smithsonian Institution Natural History is dedicated to understanding the natural world It was collected by NMNH scientists Gordon Hendler, Porter Kier and Dave Pawson using the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible, and photographed by Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution scientist John Miller. www.mnh.si.edu   (312 words)

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History -- Discover the Nature of Your Universe! The Cleveland Museum of Natural History 1 Wade Oval Drive, University Circle Cleveland, Ohio 44106-1767 U.S.A. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History -- Discover the Nature of Your Universe! At the Cleveland Museum of Natural History we encourage people of all ages to discover and explore the natural world. www.cmnh.org   (526 words)

Natural History Museum turns 100 - Science - MSNBC.com Brown, the first black employee of the Smithsonian, was remembered Tuesday as the National Museum of Natural History marked the 100th anniversary of the groundbreaking for its building. Vistors walk past a giant elephant named Henry in the rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History on Tuesday. The Natural History Museum is now one of the most popular attractions in Washington, featuring a massive elephant called Henry in its rotunda, and displays ranging from the fossils of dinosaurs to the Hope Diamond to baseball's place in America. msnbc.msn.com /id/5218737   (589 words)

National Museum of Natural History Upon entering the rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History, you are greeted by a soaring thirteen-foot tall, eight-ton, African bull elephant. The Beaux Arts building, originally constructed in 1909 as the "new" museum, is undergoing enhancement and expansion as the millenium approaches. This museum is immense - one could easily spend a day here. www.downtownmap.com /dc/html/mnatural.html   (198 words)

National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a subordinate office of the Ministry of Environment & Forests, whose basic function is to promote environmental education and create environmental/conservation awareness among the people through various inhouse and outreach activities. Under the ongoing programme of renovation and udation of the Museum Galleries, repalcement of old false celling and improvement of illumination in the four existing galleries were taken up. The educational activities of the NMNH included a number of special events besides the regular programmes of film shows and activities for the benefit of school children and teachers within the meseum permises. envfor.nic.in /nmnh/nmnh.html   (222 words)

National Museum of Natural History Review National Museum of Natural History, one's eyes are immediately drawn to the life-size elephant in the center of the room. National Museum of Natural History is an ideal place to visit as part of a vacation, field trip, or just for fun. National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution also contains a plethora of other displays. www.oit.umd.edu /units/web/fieldtrip/Jun96/nmnh.html   (670 words)

Moon Rock Stolen From National Museum of Natural History Heritage Malta said that the theft was discovered during a routine inspection carried out by the curator and the museum officer at the National Museum of Natural History in Mdina on Tuesday. It was preserved in a glass bubble and was presented as a donation to the People of Malta by US President Richard Nixon in 1973 as a sign of friendship and collaboration between the United States and Malta. This Maltese flag formed part of the original group of Commonwealth Countries' flags that were carried on board the Apollo XVII during their December 1972 mission. www.di-ve.com /dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=137640&pid=23   (358 words)

Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution entomology.si.edu   (10 words)

Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History This curtailment is necessitated by the substantial number of National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) exhibits and projects involving our collections management and conservation staff over the next few years, in addition to the substantial number of loans already approved for this period. Physical anthropology collections are stored at the National Museum of Natural History in downtown Washington, D.C. The Museum Support Center can be reached by car, rail, or an hourly shuttle-bus service from the National Museum of Natural History. Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History abbot.si.edu /anthro/cm   (956 words)

story.cfm?pk=MAMMALHALL-11-14-03&cat=AN New exhibits at National Museum of Natural History The six-year renovation project will end when the Smithsonian Institution museum welcomes children and adults into the Kenneth E. Behring Hall of Mammals, which features hundreds of mammals from four continents and nearly a dozen fossils. Animals, preserved through taxidermy, are presented in natural poses with placards and dioramas explaining how they evolved and adapted to different environments. www.knoxstudio.com /shns/story.cfm?pk=MAMMALHALL-11-14-03&cat=AN   (528 words)

National Museum of Natural History Entomological Collection In 1969, the name of the former U.S. National Museum was officially changed to the National Museum of Natural History. Entomologists outside the Washington, DC, area are frequently confused about the relationship of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Systematic Entomology Laboratory (SEL) and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Department of Entomology and the function these organizations perform for the collection. Although the Smithsonian's U.S. National Museum (USNM) was established in 1842, the first record of an insect collection actually stored in the museum does not appear until 1858. www.ars.usda.gov /is/np/systematics/insect.htm?pf=1   (4972 words)

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