List of natural history museums
Natural history museums (or museums of natural history) that go beyond special collections are listed.
Africa
- Albany Museum Complex, South Africa
- Amathole Museum in King William’s Town, South Africa
- East London Museum in East London, South Africa
- National Museum of Geosciences, Namibia
- Crystal Gallery, Namibia
- Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town
- Museu de História Natural de Moçambique, Maputo, Mozambique
Argentina
- Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia
- Museo de La Plata
Australia and Oceania
- Canterbury Museum, New Zealand
- Melbourne Museum. Australia
- South Australian Museum, Australia
Chile
- Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile, Santiago de Chile
Europe
Belgium
- Muséum des sciences naturelles de Belgique, Brussels
Denmark
- Statens Naturhistoriske Museum in Copenhagen
- Copenhagen Zoological Museum
- Gram Natural History Museum in Gram
Germany
- Nature Museum (Augsburg)
- Natural Science Museum (Aschaffenburg)
- Bachmann Museum (Bremervörde)
- Natural History Museum (Bamberg)
- Museum of Natural History (Berlin)
- Natural History Museum (Bielefeld)
- Museum Koenig (Bonn)
- Natural History Museum (Braunschweig)
- Museum of Natural History (Chemnitz)
- Natural History Museum (Coburg)
- Hessisches Landesmuseum → Natural History Collection (Darmstadt)
- Museum of Natural History and Prehistory (Dessau-Roßlau)
- Museum of Natural History (Dortmund)
- State Natural History Collections (Dresden)
- Löbbecke Museum + Aquazoo (Düsseldorf)
- Museum of Natural History (Erfurt)
- Museum Terra Triassica (Euerdorf)
- Natural Science Museum (Flensburg)
- Senckenberg Natural History Museum (Frankfurt am Main)
- Museum Nature and Man (Freiburg im Breisgau)
- Museum of Natural History (Gera)
- Natural History Museum (Gerolstein)
- Senckenberg Museum of Natural History (Görlitz)
- Center for Natural History (Hamburg)
- Zoological Museum
- Geological-Palaeontological Museum
- Mineralogical Museum
- Lower Saxony State Museum (Hanover)
- State Museum of Natural History (Karlsruhe)
- Ottoneum (Kassel)
- Natural History Museum Leipzig (Leipzig)
- Museum for Nature and Environment (Lübeck)
- Museum of Natural History (Magdeburg)
- Natural History Museum (Mainz)
- Museum Man and Nature (Munich)
- LWL Museum of Natural History (Münster)
- Eifel Nature Centre (Nettersheim)
- Natural History Museum (Nuremberg)
- State Museum of Nature and Man (Oldenburg)
- Museum am Schölerberg (Osnabrück)
- Museum of Natural History (Reutlingen)
- Natural History Museum (Schweinfurt)
- Natural History Museum (Schleusingen)
- Southeast Bavarian Natural History and Mammoth Museum (Siegsdorf)
- German Oceanographic Museum (Stralsund)
- State Museum of Natural History (Stuttgart)
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- Museum am Löwentor (Museum of Palaeontology and Geology)
- Museum Rosenstein Castle (Museum of Biology)
- Museum Wiesbaden → Natural History Collections (Wiesbaden)
- Museum of Municipal Collections in the Armoury → Julius Riemer Collection (Lutherstadt Wittenberg)
- Fuhlrott-Museum (Wuppertal; closed until further notice)
France
- Musée d’histoire naturelle de Lille, in Lille
- Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Nantes, in Nantes
- Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, in Paris
Greece
- Museum of the Natural History of the Aegean
United Kingdom
- Natural History Museum in London (England)
- Oxford University Museum of Natural History in Oxford (England)
- Natural History Museum at Tring in Tring (England)
- Royal Museum in Edinburgh (Scotland)
Italy
- Museo di storia naturale Giacomo Doria
- Museo di Storia Naturale (Florence)
- Museo di Storia Naturale (Trieste)
- Museo di Storia Naturale (Venice)
- Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
- Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona
Latvia
- Latvijas Nacionālais vēstures muzejs, Riga
Netherlands
- Naturalis in Leiden
- Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam in Rotterdam
Norway
- Natural History Museum in Oslo
Austria
- Natural History Museum Admont Monastery
- House of Nature Salzburg
- Natural History Museum Vienna
Poland
- Evolution Museum Warsaw
Portugal
- Museu Oceanográfico “Prof. Luiz Saldanha” do Portinho da Arrábida, Azeitão
- Museu Botânico da Escola Superior Agrária de Beja, Beja
- Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra
- Museu de História Natural do Funchal, Funchal
- Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Lisbon
- Museu Geológico – Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, Lisbon
- Museu Maynense da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 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
- Museu de História Natural de Sintra, Sintra
- Museu de Geologia “Fernando Real” da Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real
Romania
- Muzeul Național de Istorie Naturală Grigore Antipa
Russia
- Mineralogical Museum, named after A. J. Fersman, Moscow
- St. Petersburg Zoological Museum, St. Petersburg
Switzerland
- Grisons Nature Museum
- Naturama Aarau
- Natural History Museum Basel
- Natural History Museum Bern
- Natural History Museum Fribourg in Switzerland
- Lucerne Nature Museum
- Nature Museum St. Gallen
- Winterthur Nature Museum
- Solothurn Nature Museum
- Zoological Museum Zurich
Sweden
- Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum in Gothenburg
- Naturhistoriska riksmuseet in Stockholm
Serbia
- Belgrade Museum of Natural History in Belgrade
Spain
- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid
Ukraine
- National Museum of Natural Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev
Hungary
- Hungarian Museum of Natural Sciences in Budapest
Japan
- Osaka Museum of Natural History in Osaka
Canada
- Canadian Museum of Nature
- Nova Scotia Museum
- Royal Alberta Museum
- Royal Ontario Museum
Cuba
- Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Cubana, Havana
Peru
- Museo de Historia Natural – Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima
Taiwan
- Taiwan National Museum
USA
- Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia
- American Museum of Natural History in New York City
- Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh
- Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Cleveland
- Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta
- Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago
- Museum of the Rockies
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C.
- Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University in New Haven
- San Diego Natural History Museum in San Diego
- Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in Santa Barbara
- Slater Museum of Natural History in Tacoma
- Utah Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City
Venezuela
- Museo de Ciencias Naturales in Caracas
See also
- Natural History
- List of German museums by subject#Nature
- List of geological museums
- List of paleontological museums
- Musee d’Histoire Naturelle
- List of medical history museums
Categories
- List (Museums by collecting area)
- Natural History Museum