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Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design
Since 1857, visitors to the Natural History building of Dublin’s National Museum of Ireland can see not only animals and minerals of Ireland but, as some say, a museum of a museum.
Containing... »
Natural History | Edited by bradenh83 and Dylan
Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in an historic home
Located next to the historic 1864 residence of Illinois State Senator and co-founder and director of Chicago's Union Stockyards Lafayette Funk, the Funk Gem and Mineral Museum is certainly the... »
Natural History, Eccentric Homes | Edited by Annetta and Nicholas Jackson
Collection of fossils, plants, and ancient animals encased in amber
Located in a historic Victorian mansion at Villa Bentz, the Amber Museum showcases thousands of amber items and fossils.
The Dominican Republic has a special relationship with amber, producing... »
Geological Oddities, Museums and Collections, Natural History | Edited by bebeto and Annetta
Ones man's collection of the natural world's strange and unusual
The Battle Hill Museum in Battle Creek features the collection of one man, Dennis Laughlin. The windowless building packs in more than 4,000 natural history specimens and wildlife mounts. Other... »
Wonder Cabinets, Natural History | Edited by Sam E, michelle and 2 others
The first natural history museum in the United States
Charles Willson Peale, an American portraitist, has largely been forgotten by the annals of museum history, but his studio-cum-gallery-cum-natural history museum was one of the first museums in... »
Wonder Cabinets, Natural History, Unique Collections | Edited by M Rebekah Otto, Annetta and others
The Natural History Museum that time forgot
The Zoological Museum, housed within the Babes-Bolyai University, can be rather difficult to locate. Rickety metal spiral staircases, long halls, unmarked doors: it can all be rather confusing.... »
Natural History, Hunting and Taxidermy | Edited by michelle and Dylan
The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits
In 2003 the Smithsonian quietly renovated their animal dioramas. They removed the taxidermied gazelles, elephants, giraffes, and put in a series of interactive exhibits aimed at 10 year olds with... »
Wonder Cabinets, Natural History | Edited by meanie and Dylan
Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates
Miles off the main highway in no where central Utah lies a limestone shale quarry, a forty acre "gold mine" for trilobite enthusiasts.
This quarry is one of the richest deposits of trilobites... »
Natural Wonders, Natural History, Unique Collections | Edited by Dylan
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world
Holding 257 rare specimens, La Salle des Espèces Menacées et des Espèces Disparues (The Room of Endangered and Extinct Species) is a glimpse into natural worlds that human progress has pushed to... »
Museums and Collections, Natural History, Long Now Locations | Edited by allison, Dylan and others
