The Fur Museum is a nationally recognized local

natural history museum A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more. ...

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. The museum is named after the Danish island

Fur Fur is a thick growth of hair that covers the skin of mammals. It consists of a combination of oily guard hair on top and thick underfur beneath. The guard hair keeps moisture from reaching the skin; the underfur acts as an insulating blanket t ...

on which it is located. When the museum was founded in 1954, the focus was on the local history of the island. In 1957, the leader of Fur Museum found the fossil of a big

leatherback turtle The leatherback sea turtle (''Dermochelys coriacea''), sometimes called the lute turtle or leathery turtle or simply the luth, is the largest of all living turtles and the heaviest non-crocodilian reptile, reaching lengths of up to and weights ...

, and the focus of the museum shifted towards geology and natural history. Today Fur Museum combines exhibitions on the natural history, geology and environment of the island, with an exploration of its cultural and social history. The Museum is located in the village of Nederby, not far from the ferry port, in the south of the island named Fur, Denmark. The museum is administered as a part of Museum Salling (in Danish).

Fossils

The museum has a large and diverse collection of early

Eocene The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene' ...

(55 million years old) fossils collected locally on the island in the "moler" landscape - the Danish name for the

Fur Formation The Fur Formation is a marine geological formation of Ypresian (Lower Eocene Epoch, c. 56.0-54.5 Ma) age which crops out in the Limfjord region of Denmark from Silstrup via Mors and Fur to Ertebølle, and can be seen in many cliffs and quarries in ...

- and the underlying Stolle Klint Clay. The collection includes fossils of insects, birds, fishes, reptails, and land plants. file:Fur museum udstilingen.jpg, Fish on display file:Antigonia.jpg, '' Antigonia'' file:Polymixiid.JPG, Polymixiid fish file:FurMuseum Flue i udstilling.jpg, Man looking at Fossil fly. file:Havaborre.jpg, Unidentified Fish File:Forficula paleocaenica Fur Formation.jpg, '' Forficula paleocaenica'' Earwig file:Cimbrophlebia bittaciformis Fur Formation.jpg, '' Cimbrophlebia bittaciformis'' Scorpion fly (

Mecoptera Mecoptera (from the Greek: ''mecos'' = "long", ''ptera'' = "wings") is an order of insects in the superorder Endopterygota with about six hundred species in nine families worldwide. Mecopterans are sometimes called scorpionflies after their lar ...

) file:Udstilling - Fur Fossiler.JPG, File:Parasitic-wasp.JPG, Parasitic wasp File:FUM-4-diptera.JPG, unidentified fly (diptera)

Sources

External links

Visit Denmark describes Fur MuseumOfficial website
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