The Natural History Museum is the national museum of natural history in Denmark. The museum is beautifully located in the corner of the Botanical Garden near Nørreport Station and also consists of the Zoological Museum at Østerbro.The museum is responsible for the management of the national natural history collections as well as the associated research and public outreach. The collections form the absolute core of the museum. They include approx. 14 million objects collected over 400 years, including skins, skeletons, insects on needles, herbarium plants, fossils, minerals and meteorites. In addition to this is also the living collections in the Botanical Garden, which include approx. 12,000 different plant species, such as orchid, cactus, carnivorous plants and exotic tree species.
(Source : GBIF / GrSciColl)
DK - Denmark
snm@snm.ku.dk
DK - Denmark
snm@snm.ku.dk
ProfNina Rønsted