9 nature museums around the world to get a glimpse of the beauty of the earth! How many have you been to?

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Rare dinosaur fossils, rare insect specimens, strange deep-sea creatures... The story of change spanning 200 million years of time and space begins. With the theme of "Sustainable and Better Life", the theme of this year's International Museum Day is "Sustainable and Good Life", which highlights the value of nature museums through precious collections – to transmit nature knowledge, call for nature conservation, and work together to promote the achievement of sustainable goals.

Now, follow LP to explore the Global 9 Nature Museum and get a glimpse of the beauty of the earth~

# Natural History Museum #

United Kingdom · London

Natural History Museum

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This opulent building is one of London's finest artistic masterpieces in itself: a Venetian arch carved with animals between pale blue and honey-coloured stones. This amazing museum is loved by children of all ages and houses a variety of interesting archaeological finds.

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In the main hall, the first thing you will see is the huge skeleton of Diplodocus. In the dinosaurgallery, the most exciting is the 4-meter-tall Tyrannosaurus Rex, which makes people's hearts pound with roars from time to time. The other pavilions were equally impressive.

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Slowly ascend the escalator into a hollow sphere where there are volcanoes and earthquakes that explore how our planet formed. Highlights include a plate tectonic room and a mock-up of the Kobe earthquake, which realistically shows the Earth's fault zones.

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A team of biologists at work at the Darwin Centre, which houses an astonishing collection of more than 20 million plant and animal specimens. The center is inside the Cocoon, a 7-story egg-shaped building located in the glass pavilion, take the elevator to the top, and then walk down the floor, there are many interactive experience projects.

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In addition, glass windows allow you to see scientists at work. Finally, don't underestimate the Sensational Butterflies exhibition by East Lawn and SW7's stunning Wildlife Garden, which offers a glimpse of the English countryside.

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# American Museum of Natural History #

United States · New York

American Museum of Natural History

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Built in 1869, it is a veritable wonderland with around 30 million works of art and a state-of-the-art planetarium. From October to May, there is a butterfly conservancy with more than 500 species of butterflies from around the world.

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But perhaps the most famous is the Hall of Fossils. The gallery houses nearly 600 fossil samples, including a giant mammoth skeleton and a formidable Rex rex skeleton. There are many animal exhibitions, treasure galleries, and an iMa cinema.

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The Hall of Ocean Life has many models covering ecology and environmental protection, as well as the much-loved 29-meter model of a blue whale hanging from the ceiling. In the 77th St Grand Gallery, visitors can see a canoe of about 19 meters carved by the Haida people of British Colombia in the mid-19th century.

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In space, the Rose Center for Earth & Space is the most important exhibit. The center's stunning glass façade is otherworldly, housing the Space Pavilion and Planetarium. The monologue of astronomer Neil de Grasse Tyson, Dark Universe, explores the wonders and wonders of the universe, and plays almost every half hour throughout the day.

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# Center of Origin #

South Africa · Johannesburg

Origins Center

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If you're looking for a city vibe, Hauten will definitely spell you out. The small province of Hauten is located in the heart of South Africa and is the economic engine of the entire African continent. The centre of Hauten province is Johannesburg, often referred to as Jo'burg or Jozi, and is the largest city in South Africa. The city center is undergoing a renaissance and its cultural life is becoming more and more prosperous.

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This stunning museum explores the origins of humans in Africa through interactive exhibits. The Center of Origin is particularly attractive to schoolchildren, with some of the world's finest exhibits of rock art, featuring works by the San tribe. Another particularly cool activity is DNA testing to trace your ancestral genes.

From https://www.wits.ac.za/origins/

# National Museum of Natural History #

France · Paris

National Museum of Natural History

Although called the National Museum of Natural History, it is not a single building, but a collection of places from all over France.

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It originated in the Jardin des Plantes, and several of its best branches are also located here: the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution (Grande Galerie de l'Évolution) with its various animal specimens, the Galeries d'Anatomie Comparée et de Paléontologie with fossils and dinosaur skeletons, and the Minerals and Geology (Galerie). de Minéralogie et de Géologie) displays meteorites and crystals.

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Not to be missed is the 24-hectare botanical garden, founded in 1626 as a medicinal botanical garden for King Louis XIII, with two alleys full of plane trees running through it, visually defining the botanical garden as a whole.

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This idyllic place is perfect for walking and enjoying a relaxing picnic (watch out for automatic sprinklers!). ), allowing you to temporarily escape the city of reinforced concrete.

# Shanghai Museum of Natural History #

China · Shanghai

Shanghai Nature History Museum

This is a branch of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, and the building itself is very ornamental, with the hovering green roof rising in the Jing'an Sculpture Park like a "green snail", and the central landscape facing the interior of the Science and Technology Museum is the design of the landscape garden. The whole museum has technically realized the idea of green ecological architecture.

From the official website of Shanghai Museum of Natural History

There are 10 permanent exhibition areas in the museum, and the route is interesting, from the 2nd floor above ground to the 2nd basement floor, where tens of thousands of sea, land and air creatures you have seen and have never seen fill every space, from large animal specimens to small live animals.

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Don't look at the flowers, the content on the explanation board is very knowledgeable, and it can also let you understand a lot of new terms. Also pay attention to the Mamen Xi dragon and the saber-toothed elephant, two treasures of the town hall hidden in the exhibits. In the "Long River of Life" exhibition hall, the extinct species and existing life are brought together in the same space in a 1:1 ratio, which is one of the most exciting places in the museum.

In the "Way of Evolution" exhibition hall, there are not only dinosaurs you are familiar with, but also paleontological groups such as three-toed horses and shovel-toothed elephants. Located on the mezzanine, the "Shanghai Story" exhibition hall tells you about Shanghai's vicissitudes and the migration of fish to produce and thrive at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

The "Colorful Life" exhibition hall is full of small specimens, 61 bovine and deer horns covered with a high wall, all the birds with their heads held high, 1,200 butterfly wings put together a pattern, dazzling butterflies and moths...

There are also some limited-time areas that require reservations, such as the butterfly room and the seawater touch pool. The four-dimensional cinema in the museum plays five 17-minute short films every day, with themes such as giant pandas, African savannahs, dragons entering the sea, bacterial battles, and the legend of the feather dragon. These can be booked and purchased in advance through the WeChat public account "Shanghai Natural History Museum".

The museum is also quite complete, with restaurants, cafes to stop at, souvenir shops to visit, from an ore to earrings imitating insects, various dolls, etc.

# Natural History Museum #

Austria · Vienna

Natural History Museum

Few cities in the world can easily travel between the present and the past as Vienna. Its glorious history is easily recognizable: magnificent royal palaces and ornate and exaggerated Baroque interiors, as well as museums that stand sideways on the magnificent square.

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Vienna's stunning Museum of Natural History seems to have told 4 billion years of natural history in the blink of an eye. This late 19th-century building features an intricately whitewashed, frescoed hall and a striking dome that resembles the Kunsthistorisches Museum opposite.

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Among the minerals, fossils and dinosaur bones in the collection here are some unique finds, such as the tiny 25,000-year-old Venus von Willendorf and an unrivalled collection of 1,100 meteorites.

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The panoramic rooftop group tour can take you to climb the roof of the building and see the richly decorated buildings up close; Children under the age of 12 cannot join the tour.

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# Lee Kong Chian Museum of Natural History #

Singapore

Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum

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The Lee Kong Chian Museum of Natural History, formerly the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, reopened in April 2015 in a spectacular building dedicated to it, making it the only permanent natural history museum in Southeast Asia.

Located directly opposite the NUS Museum, the museum houses a collection of more than 500,000 items, including more than 2,000 rare specimens of plants and animals (giant groupers, giant turtles, etc.), as well as three dinosaur fossils from the United States.

Don't miss the NUS Museum, a group of three small galleries on the campus of the National University of Singapore with some pretty good collections.

From NUS Museum

The Lee Kong Chian Art Museum on the ground floor focuses on ancient Chinese porcelain and bronze, while the South and Southeast Asian Gallery upstairs exhibits regional paintings, sculptures and textiles.

From NUS Museum

Further up, the Ng Eng Teng Gallery is dedicated to the work of Ng Eng Teng (1934~2001), Singapore's most famous artist, known for his figurative sculptures.

From NUS Museum

# Field Museum of Natural History #

United States · Chicago

Field Museum of Natural History

Steely skyscrapers, top-notch chefs, rock-and-roll festivals – the Windy City Chicago is stunning with its understated culture. Choose from a variety of art museums: the vast Art Institute of Chicago houses many impressionist masterpieces, the medium-sized Museum of Mexican Art has psychedelic paintings, and the miniature Intuit gallery displays the work of self-learners.

Among them, the Field Museum houses about 30 million works of art – beetles, mummies, gemstones and ape specimens, all in the care of a group of doctoral scientists, because it is not only a museum, but also an active research institution.

The most notable of these collections is Sue, the largest Rex rex rex ever discovered, and there is even a gift shop about her.

# Royal Tyrell Paleontological Museum #

Canada · alberta

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

This amazing museum is one of the preeminent dinosaur museums on earth. It's no exaggeration to say that you haven't been here to see the astonishing facilities, and you wouldn't have been to Alberta.

Kids will love the interactive displays, and everyone will be amazed by the large number of complete dinosaur skeletons on display. Here you have the opportunity to take a guided tour into the wasteland, take a guided walking tour or participate in a dinosaur digging activity to discover your own dinosaur treasure.

You'll feel like you're behind the scenes of the movie Jurassic Park — in many ways, the real Jurassic Park.

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