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The Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo ( no, Naturhistorisk museum, NHM) is 
It traces its roots to the University Botanical Garden, which was founded near Tøyen Manor in 1814. Museums for zoology, botany and geology were added approximately a hundred years later, when the university campus in central – The Oldest Complete Primate Skeleton In The World'' (University of Oslo Natural History Museum)
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File:Zoology Museum 1 Oslo, Norway.JPG, Office entrance to Zoological Museum
File:Oslo Zoological Museum - IMG 9070.jpg, Display at Zoological Museum
File:Geologisk museum RK 1000331 IMG 2347.JPG, Ceiling at the Geological Museum, Oslo.
File:Oslo Zoological Museum - IMG 9062.jpg, Display at Zoology Museum
File:Geology Museum Oslo, Norway.JPG, Entrance to Geological Museum
Official site (English)
Panorames from the exhibits
Museums in Oslo Natural history museums in Norway University of Oslo University museums in Norway {{Norway-museum-stub
The Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo ( no, Naturhistorisk museum, NHM) is Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
's oldest and largest museum of natural history. It is situated in the neighborhood of Tøyen
Tøyen is a residential area in the central parts of Oslo, Norway, part of the borough of Gamle Oslo.
Location
There are two different stations which carry the name Tøyen. Tøyen Railway Station is located on the Gjøvik Line, while Tøyen ...
in Oslo, Norway.
It traces its roots to the University Botanical Garden, which was founded near Tøyen Manor in 1814. Museums for zoology, botany and geology were added approximately a hundred years later, when the university campus in central Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
had become too small for such purposes.
Major proponents were Waldemar Christofer Brøgger and Nordal Wille
Johan Nordal Fischer Wille (28 October 1858 – 4 February 1924) was a Norwegian botanist. He was a professor at the Royal Frederick University from 1893 to his death, founded the laboratory at the University Botanical Garden and co-founded the N ...
. For most of the twentieth century the museums and botanical garden were organized in five different entities; these were merged on 1 August 1999. The current name dates from 2005.
The Zoological Museum displaying wildlife from Norway as well as the rest of the world. The Botanical Garden contains 35,000 plants, 7,500 species and two exhibition greenhouses. The Geological Museum contain research material of more than 2 million fossils, rock specimens and minerals. A selection of specimens are on display in both the Geological Museum and the Zoological Museum. Among the attractions is the ''Darwinius masillae
''Darwinius'' is a genus within the infraorder Adapiformes, a group of basal strepsirrhine primates from the middle Eocene epoch. Its only known species, ''Darwinius masillae'', lived approximately 47 million years ago (Lutetian stage) based on ...
'' fossil "Ida", a primate from the Eocene Epoch.
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Official site (English)
Panorames from the exhibits
Museums in Oslo Natural history museums in Norway University of Oslo University museums in Norway {{Norway-museum-stub