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The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History is a small museum in Brewster, Massachusetts, focusing on natural history and archeology.It consists of a main building with exhibits on local natural history and archeology, including an outdoor butterfly house and 400 acres (160 ha) of museum- and town-owned conservation land with walking trails.
Beneski Museum of Natural History: Amherst: Hampshire: Pioneer Valley: Natural history: Part of Amherst College, large collection of dinosaur fossils, area minerals Benjamin Caryl House: Dover: Norfolk: Greater Boston: Historic house: Operated by the Dover Historical Society, which also owns the Sawin Museum and Fisher Barn, late 18th-century ...
Several hiking trails leave the Natural History museum, with the John Wing Trail going over a salt marsh boardwalk to Wing Island and the beach on Cape Cod Bay. [34] At Nickerson State Park, there are 1,900 acres (770 ha) of open woodland, nearly 8 miles (13 km) of biking trails that can be hiked as well, and hiking trails around several ponds ...
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]
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History: Brewster: Barnstable: Cape Cod: website, natural history exhibits, aquarium, steward of 400-plus acres of museum-owned land in Stony Brook Valley and Brewster Capen Hill Nature Sanctuary: Charlton: Worcester: Worcester County: website, 86 acres Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary: Lincoln: Middlesex: Greater Boston
Scientists have found the U.K.’s largest dinosaur footprint site ever. The tracks were discovered in a quarry in Oxfordshire — about 60 miles northwest of London — by quarry employee Gary ...
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 Brewster–Sanford expedition was an ornithological collecting expedition which procured specimens, principally of South American seabirds, for the collections of the American Museum of Natural History. It was initiated by Dr. Leonard Cutler Sanford and financially supported by Frederick F. Brewster, both of New Haven, Connecticut.