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)

• 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