Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo
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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 the ...
's oldest and largest museum of natural history. It is situated in the neighborhood of 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
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had become too small for such purposes. Major proponents were Waldemar Christofer Brøgger and Nordal Wille. 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'' fossil "Ida", a primate from the
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. – The Oldest Complete Primate Skeleton In The World'' (University of Oslo Natural History Museum)
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Gallery

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


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External links


Official site (English)

Panorames from the exhibits
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