Georgia Museum of Natural History

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name = Georgia Museum of Natural History


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location = Athens, Georgia, United States
website = [http://dromus.nhm.uga.edu/ dromus.nhm.uga.edu]

Georgia Museum of Natural History is the state's museum of natural history in Athens. [cite news | url=http://dromus.nhm.uga.edu/menu/museum_information.htm | title=Information | publisher=Georgia Museum of Natural History |date= 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] The science portion of the museum has fourteen different collections in Archaeology, Arthropod, Botany Herbarium, Economic Geology, Herpetology, Ichthyology, Invertebrate, Mammalogy, Mycological Herbarium, Ornithology, Paleontology, Pollen and Plant Microspore, Rocks and Minerals, and Zooarchaeology [cite news | url=http://dromus.nhm.uga.edu/htmldocs/museum_info.htm#collections | title=Collections | publisher=Georgia Museum of Natural History |date= 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] as well as more than 325,000 alcohol-preserved fish specimens. [cite news | url=http://dromus.nhm.uga.edu/htmldocs/ugamnh_faq.htm| title=FAQ | publisher=Georgia Museum of Natural History |date= 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] In addition, there are exhibits, archives, and entertainment for children. [cite news | url=http://dromus.nhm.uga.edu/menu/exhibits.htm | title=Exhibit | publisher=Georgia Museum of Natural History |date= 2008 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] Its more than four million objects makes it one of the largest museums in the Southeast. [cite news | url= | title=Museum is a cram course on natural history: UGA lacks the space to display collections | publisher=The Atlanta Journal |date= April 6, 1985 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17] The museum's webpage is one of the most visited on the University of Georgia website. [cite news | url=http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/030700/met_MNS-5381.001.shtml | title=Public role sought for natural history museum | publisher=Morris News Service |date= March 7, 2000 | first= | last= | accessdate =2008-05-17]

References

External links

* [http://dromus.nhm.uga.edu/ Georgia Museum of Natural History] - Official
* [http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-712 Listing in Georgia Encyclopedia]