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Museums hold large collections of items relating to their subject, building some of the largest complexes in the world in order to store and exhibit the collection in a controlled atmosphere. The world's most important museums have also engaged in various expansion projects through the years, expanding their total exhibition space.
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 first natural history museum was possibly that of Swiss scholar Conrad Gessner, established in Zürich in the mid-16th century. [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 ...
This list includes art museums, cultural museums, history museums, natural history museums, and science museums with an attendance of over 1,250,000 people in 2022, but does not include archaeological sites, historical monuments, or most palace museums.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C. National Gallery of Art, East Building, Washington DC Museum of Modern Art, New York City National Museum of American History, Washington D.C. This is a list of the most-visited museums in the United States in 2023 and 2022.
The estimated total number of museums worldwide is around 104,000. Museum institutions are not evenly distributed globally, with Western Europe and North America housing around 61% of museums as of March 2021. [2] The International Council of Museums comprises approximately 30,000 members in 137 countries.
The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. [4] The museum is popular for the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, [5] [6] and its extensive scientific specimen and artifact collections. [7]
The museum's collections contain over 146 million specimens [8] of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts, the largest natural history collection in the world. [9]