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The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History (UMMNH) is a natural history museum of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.. A unit of the university's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, the current building is located in the Biological Sciences Building on the university's Central Campus.
The former Alexander G. Ruthven Museums Building on Central Campus, looking towards the northeast. The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, formerly known as the Exhibit Museum of Natural History, began in the mid-19th century and expanded greatly with the donation of 60,000 specimens by Joseph Beal Steere, a U-M alumnus, in the 1870s.
Detroit Institute of Arts. This list of museums in Michigan encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Greg Schneider scans rows upon rows of liquid-filled glass jars containing coiled snake specimens, just a portion of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology's reptile and amphibian collection ...
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, America's first natural history museum. There are natural history museums in all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia. The oldest such museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1812. [1]
History of the University of Michigan. University of Michigan (1855) by Jasper Francis Cropsey, currently on display in the University of Michigan Museum of Art [1] The history of the University of Michigan began with its establishment on August 26, 1817 as the Catholepistemiad or University of Michigania.
The location of the state of Michigan. Paleontology in Michigan refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Michigan. During the Precambrian, the Upper Peninsula was home to filamentous algae. The remains it left behind are among the oldest known fossils in the world.
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