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title: "List of natural history museums"
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This is a list of natural history museums whose exhibits focus on the subject of natural history, including such topics as animals, plants, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, and climatology.
Some museums feature natural-history collections in addition to other collections, such as ones related to history, art and science. In addition, nature centers often include natural history exhibits.

== Africa ==

=== Algeria ===
Beni Abbes Museum (Musee de Beni-Abbes), Béni Abbès

=== Angola ===
National Museum of Natural History of Angola (Museu Nacional de História Natural de Angola), Luanda

=== Botswana ===
Botswana National Museum, Gaborone

=== Egypt ===
Egyptian Geological Museum, Cairo
Alexandria Aquarium Museum, Alexandria

=== Ethiopia ===
Zoological Natural History Museum, Addis Ababa

=== Kenya ===
Kitale Museum, Kitale
National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi

=== Mozambique ===
Museu de História Natural de Moçambique, Maputo

=== Namibia ===
National Earth Science Museum, Geological Survey of Namibia, Windhoek

=== Nigeria ===
Natural History Museum, OAU, Ifẹ, located at the Obafemi Awolowo University

=== South Africa ===
Albany Museum, Grahamstown
Amathole Museum, King William's Town
Bleloch Geological Museum, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Wits Life Sciences Museum, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
CP Nel Museum, Oudtshoorn
Natural Science Museum, Durban
Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town
McGregor Museum, Kimberley
KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg
National Museum, Bloemfontein
Port Elizabeth Museum, Port Elizabeth
Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, Pretoria
West Coast Fossil Park, Langebaanweg

=== Sudan ===
Sudan Natural History Museum, Khartoum

=== Tanzania ===
Olduvai Gorge Museum, Ngorongoro Conservation Area

=== Tunisia ===
Musée Océanographique de Salammbô, Carthage

=== Uganda ===
Zoology Museum, Makarere University, Kampala
Makerere University Herbarium, Makarere University, Kampala
Uganda Museum, Kampala
Herbarium, Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Kabale

=== Zimbabwe ===
Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo

== Asia ==

=== Armenia ===
Geological Museum, Yerevan
Natural History Museum, Yerevan

=== Azerbaijan ===
Natural History Museum named after Hasanbey Zardabi, Baku
Azerbaijan Geology Museum, Baku
"Rinay" Malacofauna Museum, Baku

=== China ===
Shanghai Natural History Museum, Shanghai
Chongqing Natural History Museum, Chongqing
Tianjin Natural History Museum, Tianjin
Beijing Museum of Natural History, Beijing
Bird Fossil National Geopark, Chaoyang
Geological Museum of China, Beijing
Geological Museum of Guizhou, Guiyang
Dalian Natural History Museum, Dalian
Zhejiang Museum of Natural History, Hangzhou
Neimenggu Museum of Natural History, Huhhot
Wuhan Museum of Natural History, Wuhan
Guangxi Museum of Natural History, Nanning
Shanxi Museum of Natural History, Xi'an
Jilin Museum of Natural History, Changchun
Tianyu Museum of Natural History, Pingyi
Zigong Dinosaur Museum, Zigong

=== Hong Kong ===
Stephen Hui Geological Museum, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

=== India ===
Bengal Natural History Museum, Darjeeling
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Museum of Western India, Mumbai
Gass Forest Museum, Coimbatore
Government Museum, Egmore, Chennai
Indian Museum, Kolkata
Napier Museum, Kerala
National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi (1972–2016)
Thar Natural History Fossil Museum Churu, Rajasthan
Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS)
Thiruvananthapuram Natural History Museum

=== Indonesia ===
Gedong Arca Museum, Bandung
Bogor Zoology Museum, Bogor
Bandung Geological Museum, Bandung

=== Iran ===
Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum, Tehran
Hamedan Museum of Natural History, Hamedan
Museum of Natural History and Technology, Shiraz
Natural History Museum, University of Zanjan, Zanjan
Natural History Museum of Isfahan, Isfahan
Iran Museum of Natural History and Wildlife, Tehran
Natural History Museum, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad
Natural History Museum, Institute of Botany and Plant Pests, Tehran
Natural History Museum, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar
Tabriz Museum of Natural History, Tabriz

=== Iraq ===
Iraq Natural History Museum, Baghdad

=== Israel ===
Geological Museum, Jerusalem
Natural History Museum, Jerusalem
The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv
Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem
Biblical Museum of Natural History, Beit Shemesh

=== Japan ===
Abiko City Museum of Birds, Abiko, Chiba Prefecture
Ashoro Museum of Paleontology, Ashoro, Hokkaidō Prefecture
Chūrui Naumann Elephant Museum, Makubetsu, Hokkaido Prefecture
Fukui City Museum of Natural History (in Japanese), Fukui, Fukui Prefecture
Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture
Geological Museum, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture
Gunma Museum of Natural History (in Japanese), Tomioka, Gunma Prefecture
Hiroshima City Ebayama Museum of Meteorology, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture
Ibaraki Nature Museum, Bandō, Ibaraki Prefecture
Itami City Museum of Insects, Itami, Hyogo Prefecture
Iwaki City Coal & Fossil Museum, Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History (in Japanese), Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture
Kannonzaki Nature Museum, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture
Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka Prefecture
Kuji Amber Museum, Kuji, Iwate Prefecture
Kyushu University Museum, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture
Lake Nojiri Naumann Elephant Museum, Shinano, Nagano Prefecture
Meguro Parasitological Museum, Meguro, Tokyo
Museum of Natural History, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture
Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Sanda, Hyōgo Prefecture
National Hansen's Disease Museum, Higashimurayama, Tokyo
National Museum of Nature and Science, Taitō, Tokyo
Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture
Natural History Museum and Zoological Park, Toyohashi, Aichi prefecture
Natural History Museum Kutchan, Kutchan, Hokkaidō
Nawa Insect Museum, Gifu, Gifu Prefecture
Okhotsk Sea Ice Museum of Hokkaidō, Monbetsu, Hokkaidō
Osaka Museum of Natural History, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture
Pearl Museum, Mikimoto Pearl Island, Toba, Mie Prefecture
Saitama Museum of Natural History, Nagatoro, Saitama Prefecture
Shibetsu Salmon Science Museum, Shibetsu, Hokkaidō
Tropical Medicine Museum, Nagasaki University Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture
Tsuyama Museum of Science Education, Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture

=== Jordan ===
Pella Museum, Amman

=== South Korea ===
Bandi Land Insect Museum, Muju County
Ewha Womans University Natural History Museum, Seoul
Gyeoryongsan Natural History Museum
Seodaemun Museum of Natural History, Seoul

=== Kyrgyzstan ===
Geological Museum and Mineralogical Museum, Bishkek

=== Malaysia ===
Muzium Negara, Kuala Lumpur
Natural History Museum, Putrajaya

=== Mongolia ===
Central Museum of Mongolian Dinosaurs, Ulaanbaatar
Mongolian Natural History Museum, Ulaanbaatar

=== Oman ===
Natural History Museum of Muscat, Muscat

=== Pakistan ===
Pakistan Museum of Natural History

=== Palestine ===
Palestine Museum of Natural History

=== Philippines ===
National Museum of Natural History, Manila
UPLB Museum of Natural History, University of the Philippines Los Baños

=== Qatar ===
Qatar National Museum, Doha