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The National Museum of Natural History ( bg, Национален природонаучен музей, ''Natsionalen prirodonauchen muzey''; abbreviated НПМ, NMNHS) of
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is a
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located in
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, the capital of Bulgaria, on Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard, next to the Russian church. Founded in 1889, it is affiliated with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and is the first and largest museum of this kind in the
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. The Museum's collection includes over 400 stuffed mammals, over 1,200 species of birds, hundreds of thousands of insects and other invertebrates, as well as samples of about one quarter of the world's mineral species. The National Museum of Natural History was founded in 1889 as the Natural History Museum of Knyaz
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, with various foreign and Bulgarian specialists (e.g. Ivan Buresh, director from 1913 to 1947) serving as its directors until 1947, when the museum became part of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences' Zoological Institute. The Museum became autonomous as a separate institute within the system of BAS in 1974. In 1992, the Asenovgrad Palaeontology Museum, an NMNH branch in
Asenovgrad Asenovgrad ( bg, Асеновград ) is a town in central southern Bulgaria, part of Plovdiv Province. It is the largest town in Bulgaria that is not a province center. Previously known as ''Stanimaka'' (; el, Στενήμαχος), it was ...
, was formed. Currently the museum publishes Historia naturalis bulgarica journal.


Departments

* Palaeontology and Mineralogy * Botany * Invertebrates * Vertebrates


See also

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Boyan Petrov Boyan Petrov ( bg, Боян Петров, born 7 February 1973 – disappeared 5 May 2018) was a Bulgarian zoologist and mountaineer, who worked at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia.


External links


Official website of the National Museum of Natural History
(in Bulgarian and English) Museums in Sofia
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