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=== Brazil ===
Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia – USP, São Paulo, SP
Museu de Ciências Naturais – PUC MINAS, Belo Horizonte, MG
Museu Entomológico Fritz Plaumann, Santa Catarina
Museu Geológico Valdemar Lefèvre, São Paulo, SP
Museu de Geociências – USP, São Paulo, SP
Museu de História Natural de Taubaté, Taubaté
Museu de Historia Natural Capão da Imbuia Wood, Curitiba
Museu Nacional, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém
Museu de Rochas, Minerais e Minérios – USP, São Paulo, SP
Museum of Veterinary Anatomy FMVZ USP, São Paulo
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo state
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo

=== Chile ===
Chilean National Museum of Natural History, Santiago
Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaiso, Región de Valparaiso
Museo de Historia Natural de Concepción, Región del Biobío

=== Colombia ===
Museo de Historia Natural, Popayán
Museo La Salle, Bogotá
Museo Prehistórico
National University of Colombia, Bogotá:
Museo de Historia Natural (Museum of Natural History)
Museo Entomológico (Museum of Entomology)
Museo Paleontológico (Museum of Paleontology)
Botanic Garden Medellín

=== Ecuador ===
Gustavo Orcés V. Natural History Museum, Quito

=== Guyana ===
Guyana National Museum, Georgetown

=== Paraguay ===
Botanical Garden and Zoo of Asunción, Asunción

=== Peru ===
Museum of Natural History, Lima (Museo de Historia Natural), National University of San Marcos, Lima
Museo La Salle, Lima

=== Trinidad and Tobago ===
The University of the West Indies Zoology Museum, Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

=== Uruguay ===
Museo del Mar, La Barra del Maldonado
National Museum of Natural History, Montevideo

=== Venezuela ===
Museo de Biología de la Universidad Central de Venezuela (MBUCV), Caracas
Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Caracas
Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Guanare
Museo de Historia Natural La Salle, Caracas
Museo de la Estación Biológica de Rancho Grande
Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola 'Francisco Fernández, Aragua
Museo Marino, Boca de Río
Museo Oceanologico Hermano Benigno Roman de la Fundación La Salle, Punta de Piedras, Isla Margarita
Museo Paleontológico de Urumaco, Urumaco
Museum Entomológico, Colección de Insectos de Interés Agrícola y su combate Insect Collection Interest Agricultural
William Phelps Ornithological Collection, Caracas

== See also ==

Lists of museums

== References ==

== External links ==
Biological Collections Index
Natural History Museum and Collections
EU-funded project for Museums of Natural History