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(''Paläontologisches Museum München''), is a German national natural history museum
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located in the city of Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
, Bavaria
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. It is associated with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...
. It has a large collection of fossils of animals and plants such as Mesozoic reptiles, early elephants and saber-toothed cats. The paleontological and geological institute which houses the museum is formally called the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology (''Bayerische Staatsammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie,'' BSPG), which itself is one of several institutions which make up the Bavarian Natural History Collections (''Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns'', SNSB).
One of its highlights is the specimen of the early bird '' Archaeopteryx'' discovered in 1861. The museum is also interesting because of the architecture of its building, the former urban college of arts and crafts.
See also
* List of museums in Germany *List of natural history museums
This is a list of natural history museums, also known as museums of natural history, i.e. museums whose exhibits focus on the subject of natural history, including such topics as animals, plants, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, and climatolog ...
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Fossil museums
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