Natural history museum

A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a museum with exhibits about 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. Nature centers often include natural history exhibits.

Renaissance cabinets of curiosities were private collections that typically included exotic specimens of natural history, sometimes faked, along with other types of object. The first natural history museum was possibly that of Swiss scholar Conrad Gessner, established in Zurich in the mid 16th century. The Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, established in Paris in 1635, was the first natural history museum to take the form that would be recognized as a natural history museum today. Early natural history museums offered limited accessibility, as they were generally private collections or holdings of scientific societies. The Ashmolean Museum, opened in 1683, was the first natural history museum to grant admission to the general public.

Natural history

Natural history is the research and study of organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. It encompasses scientific research but is not limited to it, with articles nowadays more often published in science magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study of any category of natural objects or organisms. That is a very broad designation in a world filled with many narrowly focused disciplines. So while natural history dates historically from studies in the ancient Greco-Roman world and the mediaeval Arabic world, through to European Renaissance naturalists working in near isolation, today's field is more of a cross discipline umbrella of many specialty sciences. For example, geobiology has a strong multi-disciplinary nature combining scientists and scientific knowledge of many specialty sciences.

A person who studies natural history is known as a naturalist or natural historian.

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Halloween half term fun (Portsmouth City Council)

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There'll be spooky shenanigans at Cumberland House Natural History Museum with a Bones, Beasties & Body Bits family event ... On Thursday, families can learn all about bees during a free drop-in session at Cumberland House Natural History Museum, where they can find out more about the beehive, how the bees live and try on some of the beekeeper's clothing from 10.30am - 12.30pm....

Looming Disaster for Goan Art

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After huge expenditure to restore Adil Shah’s palace (the former Secretariat) into expansive galleries, the state administration has now initiated its trademark hasty, opaque and highly dodgy tactics to tender out all planning and creation of the proposed museum, which successive governments and committees have confirmed must highlight the stunning trajectory of modern and contemporary Goan art....

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The dead are coming back to life at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach this week as they are being remembered and celebrated during the venue's Day of the Dead festivities ... said 84-year-old Ofelia Esparza, an artist and former teacher who is building one of several altars that will be part of the museum's week-long celebration....

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Australian archaeologists announced plans Wednesday to recreate Laos’ mysterious Plain of Jars as a three-dimensional virtual reality experience, that could one day see museum visitors walk through remote dig sites ... The technology could ultimately be used for museums, allowing visitors to wear a headset and walk around the site, or even be adapted for smartphones so anyone can visit a 3D map of a dig site from anywhere....

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Detroit art exhibit features photos of city at night

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