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The first museum of soil sciences in the world, V.V. Dokuchaev Central Pedological Museum, opened in 1904, a year after his death. [1] Some of the samples were collected as early as in 1902. Also, the soil monoliths for this collection were brought from around the world, from the Arctic to New Zealand. There are about 330 soil monoliths ...
World Soil Museum, ISRIC - World Soil Information, Wageningen campus, The Netherlands. Excavating a soil monolith (Kalimantan, Indonesia) The World Soil Museum (WSM) displays physical examples of soil profiles representing major soil types of the world, from the volcanic ash soils from Indonesia to the red, strongly weathered soils from the Amazon region.
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The museum displays the diverse types of soil in the state. It was set up by the Department of Soil Survey and Conservation of Government of Kerala and inaugurated on 1 January 2014. [1] [2] It has been described as the world's largest soil museum and the first soil museum in India established to international standards. [3] [4]
The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year. With 4.4 million visitors in 2023, it was the third most-visited museum in the United States. [6]
An example of a topological food web (image courtesy of USDA) [1]. The soil food web is the community of organisms living all or part of their lives in the soil. It describes a complex living system in the soil and how it interacts with the environment, plants, and animals.
Open GLAM [12] (Galleries, Library, Archives, and Museums) is a term that has gained popularity since 2010 to describe an initiative, [13] network and movement that supports exchange and collaboration between cultural institutions supporting open access to their digitised collections.
The project, opened in 2001, cost more than £9 million and was made possible through a partnership between the National Museums of Scotland, the National Trust for Scotland, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the European Regional Development Fund, South Lanarkshire Council, Scottish Natural Heritage and a number of private funders.