Natural History Museums

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

A fascinating collection of art made from petrified wood and fossils by two octogenarian twin brothers.

The jaw of one of humankind's earliest ancestors on display at an overlooked geology museum.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A charming museum of natural history featuring dioramas and exhibits made entirely by college students.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.