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5 days ago · The National Museum of Natural History has more than 148 million specimens and objects in its collection — more than any other natural history museum in the world. Each of these objects provides ...
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3 days ago · Come explore our blue planet with NMNH Ocean Educators. Through NOAA’s Science on a Sphere technology, you’ll encounter a series of interactive visualizations projected on the Sant Ocean Hall’s giant globe. Watch sea turtles migrate coast to coast, track ships through global waters in real-time, explore the changing climate patterns shaping our planet, and much more!
2 days ago · The National Museum of Nature and Science (国立科学博物館, Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan) is in the northeast corner of Ueno Park in Tokyo. The museum has exhibitions on pre- Meiji science in Japan. It is the venue of the taxidermied bodies of the legendary dogs Hachikō and Taro and Jiro. A life-size blue whale model and a steam ...
2 days ago · The English word museum comes from Latin, and is pluralized as museums (or rarely, musea).It is originally from the Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (), which denotes a place or temple dedicated to the muses (the patron divinities in Greek mythology of the arts), and hence was a building set apart for study and the arts, [1] especially the Musaeum (institute) for philosophy and research at Alexandria, built under Ptolemy I Soter about 280 BC.
5 days ago · Lasting Impressions. Examine remarkable fossil evidence of long-ago events in the Last Impressions gallery. From 200-million-year-old wave ripples on beach sand to a petrified tree stump, dinosaur footprints, and a giant ammonite, the past is imprinted on all of these gallery specimens.
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5 days ago · American Museum of Natural History 200 Central Park West New York, NY 10024-5102 Phone: 212-769-5100. Open daily, 10 am–5:30 pm. Closed Thanksgiving Day and ...