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Natchez National Historical Park commemorates the history of Natchez, Mississippi, and consists of four separate sites. Fort Rosalie is the 18th century site built by the French. It was later renamed Fort Panmure and controlled by Great Britain, Spain, and the United States.
This is a list of natural history museums whose exhibits focus on the subject of 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.
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]
A national museum can be a museum maintained and funded by a national government. [1] In many countries it denotes a museum run by the central government , while other museums are run by regional or local governments. [ 2 ]
The largest national park is Wrangell–St. Elias in Alaska: at over 8 million acres (32,375 km 2), it is larger than each of the nine smallest states. The next three largest parks are also in Alaska. The smallest park is Gateway Arch National Park, Missouri, at 192.83 acres (0.7804 km 2).
The National Museum of Natural History, 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. [2] Early natural history museums offered limited accessibility, as they were generally private collections or holdings of scientific societies. [3] The Ashmolean ...
National Museum of Natural History, Malta; National Museum of Natural History, Colombo; National Museum of Natural History, Uruguay; National Museums of Kenya; Natural History Museum of Armenia; Natural History Museum of Nepal; Natural History Museum of Tripoli; Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe; Natural Sciences Museum Sabiha Kasimati
National Historical Parks in the United States, managed by the National Park Service. All historic areas in the National Park System are automatically listed on the National Register of Historic Places .